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Twenty-Ninth Annual Report
OF THE
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Department
1935-1936
WITH WHICH IS INCLUDED THE REPORT FOR THE
FIVE MONTHS' PERIOD ENDING MARCH 31st, 1935.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1937
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
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TO THE HONOURABLE HERBERT ALEXANDER BRUCE,
a Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, P\R.C.S. (Eng. )
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour and
the Legislative Assembly, the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1936.
I have the honour to be,
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries
Toronto, 1937.
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TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of
Ontario
("With which is included the Report covering the
five months' period ended March 31st, 1935.)
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in charge.
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR: — I have the honour to submit to you this, the Twenty-Ninth Annual
Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining the various departmental
activities for the year ended March 31st, 1936.
Comparative tables in this report will generally omit reference to those in-
cluded in the previous report and which covered the transition five month period
existing by reason of the change in the provincial fiscal year, which as noted above
is included herein.
FINANCIAL
The subjoined table shows the total revenue of the Department during the
year reported upon, and details the various sources of revenue with the amount
derived therefrom in each instance.
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1936.
GAME—
Royalty $110,884.40
Licenses —
Trapping $28,315.15
Non-resident Hunting 53,080.'00
Deer 56,544.05
Moose 2,728.00
Gun 69,635.93
Dog 3,239.35
Fur Dealers 27,186.00
Fur Farmers 6,940.00
Tanners 170.00
Cold Storage 109.00
Hotel & Restaurant 20.00
247,967.48
$358,851.88
FISHERIES—
Royalty $ 7,600.50
Licenses —
Fishing $ 89,381.10
Angling 20'0,641.65
290,022.75
Sales — spawn taking 241.50
297,864.75
GENERAL —
Guides' Licenses 5,630.0*0
Fines 9,018.40
Sales — Confiscated articles etc 7,162.45
Rent 3,096.50
Commission 1,952.40
Miscellaneous 362.34
27,222.09
$683,938.72
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
The total amount of this revenue exceeds by $139,200.25 the amount collected
during the period of the last fiscal year reported upon, i.e., ending October 31st,
1934, and represents an increase of more than twenty-five per cent. By far the
greater proportion of this additional revenue resulted from the increased issue of
non-resident licenses, an increase amounting to practically $100,000.00, — more than
$72,000.00 from the sale of additional non-resident angling licenses, and more
than $27,0'00.00, from the sale of additional non-resident hunting licenses. Resi-
dent hunting licenses, which this year for the first time included licenses to use
dogs to hunt deer, netted an additional $22,500.00, while revenue from fines and
sales of confiscated articles, resulting from the operations of the enforcement ser-
vice, also increased by more than $7,800.00.
The total expenditures of the Department for this financial year, including both
ordinary and capital, amounted to $451,041.91, and it will be noted that our opera-
tions showed a surplus of revenue over expenditures totalling $232,896.81. Com-
pared with the previous twelve-month period reported upon, expenditures show a
decrease of somewhat in excess of $105,000.00, and while the figures quoted are an
evidence of the considerably improved financial position of the Department, such a
desirable condition has been attained not through any curtailment of necessary ser-
vices or interference with departmental activities, but rather because of close and
careful scrutiny and the resulting elimination of any unnecessary items of
expenditure.
STATISTICS
Various tables of statistics are included as appendices to this report. They
contain in detail considerable information with reference to the output of the fish
hatcheries and rearing stations maintained and operated by the Department under
the Fish Culture Branch, as well as information as to the distribution of the product
of these hatcheries and rearing stations and the waters re-stocked therewith.
Tables are also provided giving information with reference to the commercial fish-
eries of the Province, while interspersed throughout the actual report are statis-
tical facts which refer to other branches of departmental activity, assembled, com-
piled and included herein for information, and all of which may be considered to
be of value and interest.
GAME
The following table gives details as to the numbers of the various hunting
licenses, both resident and non-resident, issued during the year, as compared with
similar information for the two preceding years, and which figures it will be ob-
served indicate increases in practically all instances, and substantiate the comments
made earlier in this report concerning the improvement in our revenue collections: —
1933
1934
1935-36
Resident Moose
Resident Deer
Resident Camp (Deer) . .
Resident Farmers' (Deer)
Resident Gun
Non-resident small game
Non-resident deer
Non-resident "General" . .
673
12,756
165
5,113
97,561
318
634
512
12,89*0
175
4,902
76,210
489
475
457
496
14,779
258
5,221
85,884
686
652
680
We shall now endeavour to summarize conditions as they apply to our game
life, animal and bird, — as compiled from reports submitted by the oflBcers of the
departmental field service stationed in various sections of the Province: —
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36
DKER: — In the eastern portion of northern Ontario these animals are not too
plentiful, and little, if any, improvement was in evidence. In the western portion
of the northern division, including Rainy River and Kenora Districts and the west-
erly half of the District of Thunder Bay conditions are splendid and the animals
quite numerous. So far as the easterly portion of Thunder Bay is concerned, while
conditions are not as favorable as in the westerly portion, reports indicated that
their numbers are increasing. In southern Ontario or south of the French and
Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, they appear to be increasing in the counties
in the western and eastern sections where the protection of an entire closed season
has been effective in recent years, particularly in those areas in which favourable
habitat is available. They do not exist in the most southerly counties of the central
portion of southern Ontario, in which there has not been the same protection, and
which areas are of course quite closely settled. In those sections of southern Ontario
in which these animals are subject to the most intensive hunting during the open
season, reports indicate that speaking generally, existing conditions are favourable
and somewhat improved.
MOOSE: — Are found in fair numbers in various parts of the north and appar-
ently increasing in the eastern portion, though in southern Ontario they are very
scarce and may be found only in scattered and remote sections.
OARIBOU: — These animals are extremely scarce. The herds are few and
scattered and reported only in the eastern and western districts of the far northern
part of the Province.
ELK (Wapiti) : — As stated in previous reports this species has been introduced
here by the importation of these animals from western Canada, with the co-opera-
tion of the Federal Authorities. Herds were previously liberated in the Nipigon-
Onaman, Chapleau, Goulais River-Ranger Lake, Burwash and Pembroke Game Pre-
serves, while transfer was undertaken of some of the animals at Pembroke to
Algonquin Park and the Bruce Peninsula. While the animals may possibly be
increasing in number nothing of a reliable nature may as yet be stated as to the
success or otherwise of this experiment.
RUFFED GROUSE (Partridge): — These birds according to all reports were
considerably less than normal in number in practically every section of the Prov-
ince, particularly the north.
SHARP-TAILED GROUSE (Prairie Chicken): — Found only in extreme north-
western and northeastern portions, and there only in reduced numbers.
PTARMIGAN: — Conditions as they apply to this species are very similar to
those reported for Sharp-tailed Grouse.
QUAIL: — Generally speaking, these birds may be found only in the extreme
southwestern region, principally Essex, Kent and adjacent Counties, and reports in-
dicate some improvement in this area. They are also noted as existing in some
isolated spots in a few eastern Counties. The Department liberated live birds of
this species, numbering 200 in all, principally in the Counties of Essex, Kent and
Middlesex, in which the special open season prevailed.
DUCKS: — About the same as a general rule, with varying conditions in evid-
ence in different sections, i.e. improvement and diminished numbers in intermingled
areas.
GEESE: — Good along the James Bay shore, particularly in the vicinity of
Moosonee. Conditions about the same along the routes of migration which follow
through the north, and thence along the Counties bordering Georgian Bay, Essex
and Kent, or through eastern Ontario.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
PLOVER and SNIPE: — Neither of these two species is in any way plentiful.
Conditions remained about the same in a general way, with slight improvement
reported from widely separated areas. Present protective regulations quite
necessary.
PHEASANTS (ring-necked): — Through departmental efforts these birds are
now well established in the southwesterly Counties, and in the Counties bordering
the western part of Lake Ontario. To the east of this they are showing some im-
provement and increase in number. Details of distribution show that during the
year live birds numbering 1,122 were released, for the most part within the Counties
in which the limited open season provided, particulars of which are given further
on in this report, had prevailed, while 112 birds were taken and transferred
from Point Pelee to other sections of Essex County. In addition 17,430 pheasant
eggs were distributed to various applicants therefor, which included many settings
to Game Protective Associations, to be hatched, and the chicks reared and liberated
at the proper time for re-stocking. And again the Department is deeply grateful to
those providing such co-operation in the matter of propagating and establishing
this fine species of game bird. It is quite probable that this bird is now established
in every section in which hope for its continued existence may be held.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE: — The work of establishing this bird has been
somewhat limited, and as a result they may be found only in a few scattered sections,
where environment is suitable. They are not suflBciently established yet to justify
the expectation of noticeable improvement.
WOODCOCK: — While conditions are fairly good in some sections, reports in-
dicate they are not generally prevalent but are found in suflQcient numbers for
hunting purposes only in a few scattered districts.
RABBITS: — All species, including the cotton-tail, the snow-shoe and the
European Hare or Jack Rabbit, are plentiful and provided good shooting during the
late fall and early winter in practically all sections of southern Ontario, south of
Muskoka, Victoria and Peterborough and east of Hastings. North and east of this,
these animals showed quite a decrease in number and are somewhat scarce. In
northern Ontario the jack rabbit does not exist, but the other species were scarce
west of Algoma, but reported to be plentiful in the eastern section.
At this point reference is made to the special open seasons provided by regula-
tion during the year, details of which follow: —
For deer in the Counties of Grey and Bruce November 18 to 23, and in that
part of Carleton County west of the Rideau River, November 5 to 20.
For Moose in the County of Renfrew, November 5 to 20.
For partridge in southern Ontario, October 24, 25 and 26.
For pheasants on Pelee Island, October 23 and 24; and in the Counties of
Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland, Durham, Northumberland, Leeds and Prince Edward-
Lennox, November 1 and 2.
For pheasants and quail in the County of Middlesex, November 1 and 2.
For pheasants, quail and Hungarian partridge in the Counties of Essex and
Kent, November 1 and 2.
Before closing this section of the report mention might reasonably be made
of the Regulation which prohibits the feeding of migratory water-fowl for shooting
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36
purposes, and which was effective for the first time during the open season which
prevailed this year.
FURS
Conditions as they affect fur-bearing animals throughout the Province, and
as they have been reported to the Department, may be summarized as follows ; —
BEAK: — Conditions remained about the same. These animals would appear
to be fairly plentiful in northern Ontario, and the more northerly parts of southern
Ontario.
BEAVER: — Showing some improvement in northerly portion of southern Ont-
ario and in westerly part of northern Ontario, while to the east they are still scarc«.
The protection of an entire closed season which has been in effect in a large portion
of the Province for the past few years was extended to include all of Ontario, so
that the trapping of these animals is now prohibited throughout the Provinde the
year round.
FISHER: — These animals are apparently extremely scarce, though there are
indications of some improvement in the northerly part of the Province.
FOX: — This species is very plentiful and greatly increased in numbers, par-
ticularly in the north. In the southern portion of Ontario they are quite plentiful
in the sections to the north and east, though somewhat scarce in the Counties to
the west and south.
LYNX: — So far as the northern sections are concerned, while scarce, there is
reported to be some slight improvement, particularly towards the east. In the
southern section they are extremely scarce, being unknown in many areas.
MARTEN: — While the figures in the subjoined table show a little increase over
the figures of the previous comparative period, indications are that this species is
becoming scarcer throughout the entire Province.
MINK: — Indications and reports are to the effect that the numbers of these
animals are diminishing, and more particularly would this appear to be the case
in southern Ontario.
MUSKRAT: — Conditions which govern the welfare of this species have not been
at all favourable during the past few years, with the result that these animals are
adversely affected. A considerable decline in the catch is indicated by the figures
included in the succeeding table, and reports generally indicate a noticeable decrease
in all sections, except possibly the eastern section of northern Ontario.
OTTER: — General conditions are about the same so far as Otter are concerned,
with possibly some improvement in the northeastern part of tke Province.
RACCOON: — This species is practically unknown in northern Ontario. In
southern Ontario conditions which apply are not much changed, even though the
total catch as reported shows some decline.
SKUNK: — These objectionable little nuisances continue to be very plentiful in
practically all sections, and the reduction in the numbers taken may be attributed
to the lack of demand for the pelts and the low prices prevailing therefor, which
apparently are not suflBcient recompense for the trouble and inconvenience trapping
of the same entails.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
WEASEL: — Continue to be rather plentiful, though their numbers are possibly
somewhat reduced. The figures evidence a considerable decrease in the numberg
trapped, but as in the case of skunk prevailing prices for the pelts do not encourage
operations for the trapping of this species.
SQUIRREIiS (black and grey): — These animals are reported to be on the in-
crease in southern Ontario, especially in the western and eastern Counties. Their
numbers were sufficient to warrant a two-day open hunting season south of the
French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, i.e. on October 24th, and 25th.
Operations by licensed trappers are carried on very intensively throughout
Ontario during the periods of the various open seasons, and In a general sense the
fur-bearing animals native to the Province are as a result encountering more than
a little difficulty maintaining the several species at levels existing in recent years.
Restrictive regulations imposed for their protection, particularly in the way of
closed periods, undoubtedly require continuation, and the active co-operation of all
concerned in observing and complying therewith is urgently needed.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of the different
species of fur-bearers exported from the Province and dressed within the Province
during the years 1933, 1934 and 1936, and upon which royalty was paid as required
by the Game and Fisheries Act.
1932-33
1933-34
1935-36
556
10,799
1,203
1,495
9,198
132
82
111
1,400
1,376
52,795
637,348
3,264
12,109
67,797
92,036
3
341
10,336
1,297
2,224
13,534
280
89
85
2,138
1,096
63.615
521,751
3,330
18,673
73,721
68,164
5
411
6,785
F^ishpr
2,137
F'ov frro<!a^
5,424
Fox (red)
37,044
Fox (silver or black)
5*00
Fox r white)
883
Fox (not specified)
495
Lynx
2,642
Marten
1,282
Mink
47,057
Muskrat
398,043
Otter
3,701
Raccoon
13,259
Skunk
50,747
Weasel
42,643
Wolverine
4
891,7'04
780,679
613,057
Based on the average prices as computed by the Department from information
secured from reliable sources, the value to the trapper of the fur catch of the
1935-36 season is estimated at $1,906,121.'04, appreciated values accounting for
the increase over the previous comparative period. These figures do not take into
consideration silver, black and blue foxes and mink the product of our licensed fur
farms, the pelts of which animals are exempt from the royalty provisions of the
Game and Fisheries Act. During the year reported upon a total of 21,318 silver
and black fox pelts were either exported from the Province or tanned, as well as
15 blue fox pelts and 9,641 mink pelts. The estimated total value of all these pelts
was $827,451.11, which, of course, accrued to fur farmers licensed under the reg-
ulations which govern such operations.
FUR FARMING
At this time a short resume of this branch of industry in Ontario during the
past few years, as well as its present status should be of interest.
ANNUAL, REPORT, 1935-36
Following the economic conditions which developed in 1930, values declined
severely, forcing a revaluation and a corresponding reduction of breeding stocks on
fur farms. 29,331 animals were pelted in 1931, as compared with 13,140 in 1930;
8,149 in 1929; and 5,427 in 1928. The increase over the normal production further
adversely influenced prices in the fur market and caused some severe financial losses
to individuals. There were, however, some factors which compensated the industry
as a whole. In the process of reduction, the quality of breeding stocks was im-
proved, creating a new standard of excellence. The lower values of breeding stocks
attracted additional capital and new farms were established. While the reduction
of breeding stock continued, the number of farms actually increased until a peak
was reached in 1931, when 1,609 farms were licensed. A slight annual decline
subsequently developed until 1934, when only 1,217 farms were licensed. The in-
dustry is again showing progress both in the number of farms and the breeding
stock kept. There were 1,239 farms licensed this year and breeding stocks in-
creased by eighteen per cent. The propagation of mink is now commanding con-
siderable attention, live stock having increased almost fifty per cent, whereas the
silver fox, the other principal species, increased only twelve per cent.
SUMMARY OF BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS
AS AT JANUARY 1ST
1934
1935
1936
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink ,
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Bear
Marten
60
78
70
18
19
16
443
434
367
360
286
228
16,826
19,314
21,645
10
10
5
2
2
2
6,190
8,605
12,332
499
447
375
989
799
524
2
•0
3
14
11
21
22
9
4
The work at the Experimental Fur Farm continued, and the following is a short
summary thereof: —
EXPERIMENTAL FUR FARM
Further investigations were carried out regarding the feeding of raw cereals
to pup foxes after weaning at around eight to nine weeks of age. It was found that
in an uncooked stage raw cereals were not only very improperly digested but that
they were actually detrimental to the health of the pups. Scouring, bloating and
intestinal disorders could be traced directly to this soujce. Once the raw cereal-
fed pups were placed on a diet containing thoroughly cooked cereals these objec-
tionable symptoms entirely disappeared.
Due to the number of enquries from mink ranchers regarding the substitution
of fresh meat and fish with dehydrated products, like meat meals and fish meals,
feeding experiments were carried out to attempt to ascertain how far this might cor-
rectly be done. A summary of these experiments shows that fresh products cannot
be entirely replaced by dried ones. Where animals were fed fish meals there was
a steady decline in the haemoglobin of the blood resulting in mutritional anaemia.
If liver meal was added to the fish meal diet the anaemia was arrested and finally
disappeared. This was also the case with meat meals unless one third of the ration
consisted of liver meal.
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Apart from the nutritional condition of the animals there was a distinct tend-
ency for the fur to be dry and scanty. It appears that quantities of fresh food must
be fed to fur-bearing animals if the best results are to be obtained. Particularly
does this apply to breeding stock, for if females are fed mainly on dried products
they may breed and give birth to pups but they will invariably dry up during the
lactation period and many pups will die at the fourth week as a result.
During the summer, regional meetings were held at Guelph, Owen Sound, ,Am-
prior, Ridgetown and St. Mary's which were well attended and many and varied
discussions arose during these meetings. In October a Field day was held , at the
Experimental Fur Farm at which time the foxes and mink were judged for. quality
and value by competent authorities on the subject. This meeting was highly suc-
cessful and breeders attended from all parts of the Province.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
The idea of Crown Game Preserves had its origin in the desire to prptect and
perpetuate the natural' wild life resources of the country. The Department lias not
been slow in recognizing the value of protected areas for the natural propagation of
game, and has continued to give increased attention to this phase of its conservation
programme. In Northern Ontario, where the population is still sparse, and big game
as a consequence more abundant, advantage has been taken of the fact that much
Crown Land was available and large areas were in previous years established as
Game Preserves. The ten largest of these, viz; — The Abitibi, Burwash, Chapleau,
Goulais River-Ranger Lake, Lake of the Woods, Mississauga-White River, Nipigon-
Onaman, Nipissing, Pipestone Lake and Superior, represent a total area of approx-
imately 8,593 square miles. At the present time there are some 84 Crown Game Pre-
serves in the Province, representing a protected area of close to six million acres.
During the period under review the Department has extended its game preserve
policy to include a larger portion of southern Ontario. It is intended with the co-
operation of private land owners to set aside as Game Preserves a number of small
areas, each of about one thousand acres or so, located at strategic points in each
County. While all species of game will be protected in these areas, they will be
primarily useful as refuges for game birds, (migratory and non-migratory). The
underlying idea in connection with these small Preserves is the same as in the case
of the larger areas where big game is being successfully propagated. Given pro-
tection for a period of years game birds and animals, provided there is a foundation
stock in the area, will increase in numbers and the overflow will serve to populate
the surrounding districts. Fourteen of these Preserves have already been established
in various Counties, (see tabulation). All of these areas are well suited for the
purpose and most of them are already supplied with upland game birds. It is the
intention of the Department however, to place the larger portion of its available
adult birds on these Preserves for re-stocking purposes.
It is generally acknowledged that where the wild life is allowed to propagate
with a minimum of human interference and in surroundings which provide natural
food and cover, there will in time be a return to the normal conditions set up by
nature. This means not olily increased game in the protected areas but a general
Improvement in conditions throughout the Province.
So far as the general public is concerned these Preserves serve a dual purpose.
From the standpoint of the sportsman they provide more game of all kinds and
therefore better hunting. For those whose chief pleasure in the wild life is aesthetic.
Crown Game Preserves will increase their pleasures by providing havens for the
different species where they may be found in their natural state. In addition they
will ensure that future generations will not be deprived of either the recreational or
the aesthetic advantages which we now enjoy.
The following tabulation shows the Preserves added during the year in addi-
tion to several which have been either renewed or amended.
ANNUAL REPORT,. 1935^36
Name
County
Extent in
Acres
x.i North Ea&thope ., ^ .•»•••••• • •':• • »
;x: Wilder Lake .
:x: Woodlands
X Decew Falls (formerly Power Glen)
Camden
Dresden
Colchester South .
Tilbury West
Cultus
Enniskillen , .
Erin .
Horner .
Komoka
Strathroy
Newbury ^
Malahide ....... . . ; . . . . .■ , . .
Murray
Stamford
Perth ;
G^rey „ ^ . , .
Haltbn * '
Lincoln
Kent
Kent
Essex
Essex
Norfolk
Lambton .
Wellingtoii
Oxford
Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex
Elgin
Northumberland
Welland
8,300
4,480
460
2,-000
300
1,200
800
1,200
600
1,100
800
2,4t)0
500
1,009
1.60'0
1,000
680.
1.100
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;x: — Renewed
X — Amended
WOLF BOUNTIES
During the year under review, 1935-36, 2,0*04 claims for bounty, involving the
pelts of 2,905 wolves, were dealt with. Rather more than fifty per cent of these
wolves were killed in the four western districts of northern Ontario, of which about
sixty-five per cent were brush wolves. A slightly higher ratio of timber wolves was
taken in Algoma, Sudbury and Nipissing Districts, while only twelve per cent of
these animals which were taken in the District of Cochrane were brush wolves. The
following table details the sources of origin of the pelts submitted for bounty: —
SUMMARY OF PELTS
District or County
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Frontenac
Haldimand
Haliburton
Hastings
Kenora
Lanark
Lennox & Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Ontario
Parry Sound
Patricia
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Temiskaming
Victoria
York
Total
No. of Adult Wolves
Timber Brush
124
12
37
7
1
18
8
225
5
11
27
9
79
0
1
89
88
3
125
27
12
108
138
4
1
0
1,159
157
9
5
1
3
0
1
447
1
0
130
5
42
4
3
16
136
1
231
1
6
168
336
7
1
2
1,713
Number
of Pups
7
0
0
0
0
0
6
1
0
0
4
0
5
1
•0
1
2
0
1
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
33
Total
288
21
42
8
4
18
15
673
6
11
161
14
126
5
4
106
226
4
357
28
18
276
479
11
2
2
2,905
It)
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SeveDteen claims were not granted including 20 pelts of dogs and other animals
which were not eligible for bounty.
Following is a comparative table of wolf bounty statistics covering the three
last complete financial years: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending October 31, 1933. . .
For year ending October 31, 1934. . .
For year ending March 31, 1936
1,112
990
1,159
1,229
812
1,713
43
57
33
2,384
1,859
2,905
$53,433.88
27,t)80.65
42,399.89
Of the 1935-36 amount shown above, viz: — $42,399.89, $41,995.00 was the
amount paid for bounty. Details of bounty paid are as follows:
Brush Wolves
(Counties)
(Districts)
(Counties)
(Districts)
(Counties)
(Districts)
3*0
1,666
@ $ 6.00
@ $15.00
@ $ 6.00
@ $15.00
@ $ 2.00
@ $ 5.00
pelts
$ 180.00
$24,990.00
Total Brush
Timber Wolves
1,696
73
1,D84
$ 438.00
$16,260.00
$25,170.00
Total Timber
Pups
1,157
1
25
26
2.879
$ 2.0t)
$ 125.00
$16,698.00
Total
$ 127.00
Total
$41.995.'00
In respect to wolves killed in provisional judicial districts, bounty was paid by
the Provincial Treasury, but for wolves killed in Counties it was paid by the County
Treasury, of which forty per cent was rebated by the Province.
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE
Perhaps one of the most important services provided by the Department is
the work of maintaining adequate respect for and proper observance of provisions
of the Game and Fisheries Act and the regulations provided thereunder, as well as
the various regulations applicable to Ontario adopted under the Fisheries Act,
(Federal) and the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Generally speaking, this branch
of activity is assigned to the members of the Field Service Staff, whose regular num-
bers were augmented by the appointment of additional Seasonal Overseers for special
duty during the hunting seasons, and also during the critical fish spawning periods.
This work is also included among the duties performed by members of the Prov-
incial Police Force, a policy which was inaugurated during the latter part of 1934,
and which assistance has been of considerable value. A word of appreciation may be
expressed for the co-operation in this work which is provided by the many Deputy
Game and Fishery Wardens, whose interest in the preservation of our game and
fish resources is sufficient to encourage them to volunteer their services without
remuneration, and who under such appointments are authorized to act in the cap-
acity of enforcement officers for purposes of the Game and Fisheries Act. During
the calendar year 1935 Deputy Game and Fishery Warden appointments totalled 836,
and one hesitates to estimate the value of the service and co-operation the Department
received from these honorary oflQcers, and the least that may be said is that it would
be difficult to replace or duplicate the services which they rendered.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36 11
Notwithstanding the fact that these enforcement services are provided, there
are still those who, in the case of the Game and Fisheries Act as in the case of other
regulatory legislation, will either knowingly or otherwise infringe and who there-
fore are confronted with inconvenience and difficulty if contacted by the enforce-
ment service when the violations occur.
During 1935-36 there were 1,216 cases in which offences were committed and
in which the offenders were relieved by various officers of their equipment and the
unlawful game or fish which might have been in their possession on these occasions.
An examination of the reports of these seizures of equipment and goods shows that
in 987 cases action was provided by Game and Fisheries Overseers; in 144 cases
by Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens; in 36 cases by members of the Ontario
Provincial Police Force and in 46 cases by co-operative action. Overseers, Deputy
Game Wardens and Provincial Police working in conjunction with each other; while
in three cases the action was taken by Municipal Police.
A condensed summary of the articles thus seized is submitted herewith: —
Description No.
Fire-arms and ammunition 440
Fishing equipment 308
Fish 197
Game 154
Pelts 121
Trapping equipment 118
Angling equipment 62
Water craft 38
Lights (artificial) 37
Live animals 16
Motor vehicles 9
Miscellaneous 412
Duplicate entries on one seizure, such as fire-arms and game; Angling equip-
ment and fish; trapping equipment and pelts; and other combinations of a similar na-
ture account for the apparent discrepancy in the total of the above table, viz. — 1,542
as compared with the 1,216 actual seizure reports.
Departmental records contain evidence of the fact that during the year under
review there were some 967 cases in which offenders against our legislation and
regulations were prosecuted in the courts, and in which convictions were registered
against such offenders. As in the case of the actual seizures these court cases were
somewhat varied as to origin, as follows: — In 806 cases Game and Fisheries
Overseers were responsible for the prosecution; Provincial Police in 51 cases; Deputy
Game and Fishery Wardens in 42 cases, and in 66 cases the prosecutions were by
Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police acting in conjunction with
«ach other; while in 2 cases Municipal Police undertook the action.
REPORT OF THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
Ontario's commercial fishing industry is an important factor in our industrial
life. In point of annual marketed value of production Ontario stands first among
the provinces. In the four year period 1926-1929, before the world-wide disruption
of economic conditions was felt, the average marketed value of Ontario's fish was
13,693,000. In the four year period, 1930-33, the average marketed value of the
catch was slightly in excess of $2,500,000 and in 1934 the marketed value was
$2,316,965., and in 1935, $2,633,512.90. These figures are cited to emphasize the
value of our commercial fishing industry, the hopeful signs of recent increasing
values and the importance of maintaining this industry on a proper basis.
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' Qii' the other hand, Ontario's game-fishing interests are vitally important to
every petiBon in the Province, and the conservation of these interests is becoming
of practical concern to increasing thousands of our citizens. This is not difficult to
explain, when we consider the recreational and health advantages, and the direct
and indirect financial benefits of a large and ever-increasing tourist trade, em-
bracing as it does in one way or another every branch of industry, thus increasing
•employment. It is estimated that 10, St) 0,0 00 tourists from the United States and
other countries entered Canada in 1935, and left behind $200,'000,000. in cash; of
this total Ontario received $84,000,000. Emphasis is placed on the importance
of the tourist trade, for it is generally conceded that the chief attraction to the
tourist is our excellent fishing.
There are many complex factors involved in the maintenance of fisheries
Interests and a few of the more important may be cited:
1. Scientific inquiry.
2. Re-stocking measures of a practial nature.
3. Protection.
4. The spread and development of the ideals of true sportsmanship.
All these factors are inseparably linked together in the problem of fisheries
management.
HATCHERIES AND REARING STATIONS:
The Department operates twenty-two fish cultural stations. This number in-
cludes all the major and subsidiary rearing stations. The actual number of hatch-
eries is nineteen; trout rearing stations, nine; bass rearing stations, three; in addi-
tion to the facilities for hatching bass in the Lake on the Mountain, Glenora
Hatchery.
During the year, a new trout rearing station was built in the vicinity of Chats-
worth, comprising the hatchery for hatching and culture to the advanced fry stage,
and four rearing ponds, all of which are separately fed and drained. Two excellent
sources of spring water supply the hatchery and ponds, and a very important advan-
tage in the arrangement is that the hatchery supply and the supply to the main
rearing ponds are separate. The water itself is of satisfactory composition and of
low and approximately constant temperature 45 °F. The total volume of water
delivered is approximately 2100 gallons per minute. The constant and relatively
high winter temperature induces early hatching, so that the fish are strong and well
advanced for transfer to the rearing ponds in early summer.
The Department acquired a series of four ponds at Midhurst Reforestry Sta-
tion. These were renovated and trout carried over winter. Additional improve-
ments will be made on these ponds next year.
SPECKLED TROUT:
The Department's objective is to increase the number of sizable trout distri-
buted to suitable waters year by year. This is necessary if we are to maintain the
supply on account of the increasing intensity of the fishing. Furthermore, there
are numerous streams in southern Ontario, in which the food supply for trout fry
and fingerlings has diminished and cannot meet the requirements imposed on the
stream by the introduction of additional supplies of baby fish. This condition is due
to the rapid industrialization of the Province by agricultural, lumbering, manufac-
turing, and other interests, all of which have been instrumental in changing the
character of our lakes and streams. It is clear to anyone, for example, how effective
scouring freshets, and bulging streams heavily laden with silt are, in changing the
quantity and quality of the food supply. During prolonged periods of drought,
also, the shallow muddy shoals and backwaters, the home of minute life on which
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36 13
young trout feed, become dried up. It is clear, therefore, that under such circum-
stances planting yearling and older fish which feed on the larger forms of terrestrial
and aquatic life, insects, shellfish, and fish will have a better chance to survive. It
is true that if fry and small flngerlings are carefully distributed in protected head-
waters, a percentage will survive, but we may plant. yearlings in the main streams of
creeks with much greater impunity and with greater hope of success since fish of this
age can more easily search out favourable sections of the stream for food and shelter.
There are numerous lakes, also, where on account of the limitations of food supply,
the planting of fry and fingerlings is undesirable. For example, lakes with both
shallow and deep water, should produce more trout food for immature and mature
trout than those with precipitous shores, where the shallow water fauna are
extremely limited. In the latter case the planting of larger trout is desirable.
We must remember that the productiveness of any natural body of water is fixed
by nature and our objective is to prevent fishing from reaching a low level. When
a body of water becomes depleted to too low a level the increase of undesirables
often goes on to such an extent that it becomes increasingly diflBcult for trout,
especially young trout, to survive. The introduction of yearling and older trout, in
such cases, is obviously a more practical procedure.
The following table illustrates the progress being made in the distribution of
larger trout to suitable lakes and streams throughout the Province:
Length in Inches 1934 193?
3 to- 7 inches 913,315 2,464,987
4 to 9 inches 19,538
4 to 16 inches 3,876 189,156
BROWN TROUT:
Brown trout are native to lakes and streams in the temperate portions of Great
Britain, France, Germany, and other central European countries. The Loch Leven
trout is a form of brown trout inhabiting Loch Leven in Scotland.
Brown trout have been introduced and are now fairly abundant in certain waters
of the Great Lakes watershed. They have been propagated in Michigan since about
1880. Most of the early plantings of brown trout were in the fry stage, as a result
of which they are now rather widely distributed especially in the lower peninsula.
Brown trout are now being reared to the fingerling stage in Michigan and good
results are claimed from these pri&,ntings to date. Brown trout are also established
in the more southerly sections of Wisco'nsin and Minnesota, and also in New York
State.
Conditions suitable for brown trout are closely parallel to those suitable for
speckled trout, excepting that brown trout according to the experience of those best
qualified to judge will endure much higher water temperatures than speckled trout,
and hence are valuable for re-stocking lower stretches of streams which are no longer
suitable for the latter on account of temperatures in excess of 75 "F.
In a biological survey of the Genesee River system, in New York State, it was
observed that with few exceptions brown trout were found in every stream in-
habited by brook trout. However, in the colder brook trout streams, showing tem-
peratures below 65°F. they were rarely encountered. They reached maximum size
and abundance in streams ranging from about 68 to 75°F., and occurred in many
others attaining temperatures as high as 80''F.
Our policy, and the general concensus of opinion of those who have had ex-
perience with this trout in America is that it should not be introduced into any
waters where conditions are still suitable for native speckled trout, as experience
14 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
has shown that the brown trout become predominant, eventually, and replace brooks.
They not only compete with brooks for food, but they spawn about the same time
and are known to monopolize the spawning beds.
The lower reaches of many streams in southern Ontario do not possess suitable
conditions for speckled trout. The headwaters of some of these streams, still pro-
vide suitable conditions for a limited number of small trout, but, on the whole, they
could be more profitably stocked with browns. After careful survey and selection,
a number of promising streams have been stocked in old Ontario and favourable
reports have been received on some of these.
Brown trout are much more notional in their feeding habits than our native
trout and hence are not so easily taken. They are considered a night feeder, and
probably the best catches are made about dark, although there are many excep-
tions and good catches have been made during the day time. In view of the diflB-
culties experienced in catching brown trout, they withstand heavy fishing pressure,
and hence are valuable for re-stocking waters in populated areas.
There are several examples which testify to the fact that brown trout will live
in lakes, but on account of the diflftculty of capture in such an environment, from the
standpoint of sport fishing, re-stocking seems impracticable. However, for the pur-
pose of establishing natural sources of supply for brown trout eggs, the introduction
to suitable and controlled areas is worth a trial. This was the Department's objec-
tive in re-stocking Brewer Lake, in Algonquin Park, as noted in the report of the
Department for 1934.
A biological study of the lake was first carried out by setting test gill nets,
etc., to determine the inhabitants of the lake, their relative abundance and their
feeding habits. The lake was then intensively netted for mature trout, predatory
and competitive fish. The catch was chiefly comprised of lake trout, speckled trout,
suckers and ling. When the netting was completed, the outlet of the lake was suit-
ably screened off and brown trout introduced. In addition to favourable biological
features, the lake is also accessible and easily controlled.
RAINBOW TROUT:
A study similar to that conducted for brown trout was made on Costello Lake,
located Immediately below Brewer Lake and Into which Brewer Lake drains. After
screening the outlet, rainbow trout yearlings were planted directly Into suitable
parts of the lake and fingerllngs were planted In the stream connecting Brewer
and Costello.
The object of this work Is to establish. If possible, a source of supply for col-
lecting spawn In order to overcome the expense Incurred In retaining domesticated
stock In ponds.
The rainbow trout distributed In our waters show a strong migratory instinct
to drop down to larger waters while they are yet Immature. In this way they
become lost to the stream In which they were originally planted, except during their
return for spawning purposes. During the year fingerllngs have been distributed
in ponds, lakes and streams where the best possible results may be obtained. Care
was taken to plant the rainbows In waters where spawning facilities were available
and tributary to larger suitable waters.
As an Illustration of some success of the Introduction of rainbow trout, may
we quote the result of planting rainbow trout fingerllngs in Burnt Lake, Townships
of Sherbourne and McCllntock, District of Hallburton, In 1932:
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"The development of Rainbow Trout in this water has been most satis-
factory and the following is a record of fish taken during 1934, 35:
J. M. Guide — 5 from 15 to 18 inches long; B. B., Dorset — 1, 2^4 lbs.
in weight; A.M., Dorset, 3 about 16 inches long; A. T. W., Dorset, 3
about 16 to 18 inches long; L. R., Rochester, N.Y., 5 that were weighed
at Robertson's stores and averaged 2% lbs."
We have a supply of fall spawning rainbow trout breeders but how closely
they will follow the fall spawning habit is questionable. It is reported officially,
however, that this particular strain has a tendency to remain in the waters in which
they are planted; they grow rapidly and withstand high temperatures. Spawn will
not be collected from these fish until the fall of 1937, when they will be three
years old If any revert to a spring spawning habit, they will be segregated.
KAMLOOPS TROUT:
This species, described in a previous report, was introduced for the first time
to a few specially chosen waters and these plantings will be carefully followed up
to determine the results.
Kamloops trout spawn in streams and in lakes on bars at the mouths of spring
streams. Although these fish do not spawn until April, May, or June, they are
cultured similarly to speckled trout and in British Columbia live and thrive in waters
suitable for speckled trout.
LAND-LOCKED SALMON:
The land-locked salmon or ouananiche was described in a previous report.
The Department succeeded in planting 13,648 yearlings in specially chosen waters,
and the results of these plantings will be carefully followed up. Lakes suitable for
lake trout were chosen, since a closely related form thrives exceedingly well in a
lake trout environment. The ouananiche, the chief centre of which is Lake St. John
in Quebec, spawns in tributaries to that lake.
LAKE TROUT:
The number of eyed lake trout eggs distributed, set forth in the report
November 1st, 1934 to March 31st, 1935, was nearly five times the number dis-
tributed in 19 34.
More than six times as many fry were distributed in 1935 and over one million
were planted in inland waters.
Half a million more fingerlings were distributed as compared with the previous
year and nearly half the total distribution of lake trout fingerlings was planted
in inland waters, thereby succeeding in the drive prophesied in the preceding
report.
WHITEFISH:
Including that quantity of whitefish distributed between November 1st, 1934,
and March 31, 1935, there was an increase in the 1935 planting amounting to
slightly more than 13 per cent.
It should be stated that this distribution was exceeded only in 1924 and 1927.
HERRING:
There was an increase of 66.4 per cent, in the distribution of herring fry over
that of the previous year, including one hundred thousand included in the report
of the five months, November 1, 1934, to March 31, 1935.
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YELLOW PICKEREL:
There was a decrease in the distribution of pickerel fry to the extent of
approximately 48,8 41,000 due to an unsatisfactory run of pickerel in the Bay of
Quinte.
Large numbers of fry were distributed to suitable inland game fishing areas.
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS:
There was a percentage increase in fry distribution over the previous year
amounting to approximately 47 per cent. The Department was also successful in
distributing more than four times as many fingerlings, that is an increase of over
one hundred and seventeen thousand, in addition to 3,435 yearlings and adults, as
compared with 420 adults in 1934.
LARGE-MOUTHED :
From one pond devoted to the culture of this species at the Mount Pleasant
Hatchery, ISO.'OOO fry and 2,153 fingerlings were distributed.
MASKINONGE:
As a result of the Department's operations on the Pigeon River at Omemee,
460,000 maskinonge fry were distributed to suitable waters.
The chief diflSculties attending our operations this year were adverse weather
conditions, that is sudden lowering of temperature from a gradually rising one
and, also, the scarcity of ripe males and females. Abundance of eggs and a small
amount of milt results in high fertility.
We have already discussed the unsuccessful attempts made on this Continent
to rear maskinonge to the fingerling stage in appreciable numbers. Millions of fry
have been produced in New York and Wisconsin hatcheries and Ontario can do
likewise when suflQcient spawning fish are available and when favourable spawning
and hatching temperatures are actualities.
SANCTUARIES:
There is a trenmendous demand for more and more black bass and maskinonge
for maintaining the supply in our inland waters, since both of these species have a
very great appeal to anglers. Our rearing ponds and hatcheries are doing good
work, but considering the extent of Ontario's bass and maskinonge waters and the
enormous resident and non-resident fishing population, we can scarcely hope to
produce an adequate number of these species by pond culture to close the gap
between supply and demand.
In addition to the imposition of suitable closed seasons, sane creel limits, the
control of competitive and predatory species, and pollution, there is probably no
more promising method of bass and maskinonge conservation than the establishment
of sanctuaries, that is setting aside in certain suitable waters, a number of bays in
which fishing of any kind is prohibited. The bass and maskinonge multiply in
these areas without interference and spread to other parts of the said lake or stream,
thus preventing depletion. By such means we may be approaching the ideal of
maintaining a permanent breeding stock and taking each year only the natural
increase from it.
In many areas of this kind maskinonge and large-mouthed black bass live and
thrive. In many, also, there are mixed environmental conditions, so that small-
mouthed black bass is a frequent inhabitant also. Closures of this nature will be
followed up from time to time to determine the results and if there are deficiencies
in these closed areas, we propose to remedy them, if possible. For example, condi-
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36 17
tions in certain areas may be vastly improved by eliminating useless competitors
or enemies, and a number of areas may show distinct possibilities for rearing lunge
and bass under controlled natural conditions.
In view of an ever-increasing tourist trade, fishing for bass and maskinonge
is becoming more and more intensive and considering the accessibility the ease and
speed with which many of our waters may be invaded, it becomes increasingly
evident that sanctuaries of this nature are necessary.
It is diflficult to draw any hard and fast line between sanctuaries and closed
areas enumerated below. In many of these and in many waters formerly closed,
the sanctuary principle is evident. In many instances, however, the object of closure
of an entire body of water is for stock and supply. Such an area is closed per-
manently to public fishing, so that quantities of bass may be removed each year
by harvesting methods for re-stocking suitable waters in the vicinity. This type
of closure is slightly different from the principle embodied in establishing
sanctuaries but the same objective, namely practical re-stocking, is involved.
CLOSED WATERS:
The following waters were closed to all fishing during the year for the purpose
and for the period specified:
Creamery Creek and Trout Rearing: Pond in Harrison Park, Owen Sound —
Located in the Township of Derby, County of Grey, — closed until May 1st, 1939,
for brown trout propagation.
North Lakes or Gravel Lakes and their connecting streams and Creek flowing from
Fourth Gravel Lake to Wliiteftsh Lake —
Located in unsurveyed territory west of the Township of Strange, District of
Thunder Bay, — closed until August 22, 19 38, for speckled trout propagation.
Silver Islet Creek —
Located in the Township of Sibley, District of Thunder Bay, — closed to all
fishing until September 11, 19 37, for speckled trout propagation.
A large number of waters were closed in 19 36, and for information concerning
these the Game and Fisheries Laws should be consulted.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH:
Between April 1, 1935, and March 31, 1936, hoop nets and tra^ nets were
operated in the following lakes in Leeds and Lanark Counties, namely: Bennett,
Christie, Pike, Otty, Rideau, Crow, and the Mississippi River, and a total of 1,818
•ling were removed. Taking five pounds for the average weight of the ling from
all of these lakes, 9,090 pounds were removed. Adverse weather conditions slowed
up the work to a considerable extent. Blocked roads in the district prevented our
officers from getting to the lakes as effectively as during previous winters when
such work was undertaken.
Similar work was conducted on Lake Manitou, Manitoulin Island, where gill
nets were set and a total of 2,416 pounds of ling were removed; the average weight
of the ling was 4 lbs. / a-'Ue?' ^d\^
In order to have a more complete picture of the removal of ling from our inland
waters, reference should be made to the report for the five month period, November
1st, 1934, to March 31, 1935.
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
WATER LEVELS:
In view of the shallowness of the water in which maskinonge, pike, black bass
and forage fish spawn, sudden fluctuations in water levels over natural spawning
beds are inimical. The Department has appealed to all those responsible for such
operations and the Department of Railways and Canals was supplied with the follow-
ing data on the waters on which they operate dams for power and navigation pur-
poses, namely, the fish frequenting the waters, the spawning dates of the various
species and the spawning depths. As a result we look for definite improvement
along these lines. Judging from information received from our field oflacers, con-
siderable improvement is evident.
NUTRITION OF TROUT:
During the fall, winter and spring of 1935-36 a number of feeding experiments
were conducted in the Department's experimental hatchery in the Parliament
Buildings, Toronto. The object of these experiments was to find a suitable food or
mixture of foods that would produce healthy and vigorous trout at a lower cost
than the food generally used, namely beef liver.
Previous investigations of this nature have been conducted by the Department
and a short account of this was given in a report of December 21, 193 5, entitled
'Ontario's Problems in Fisheries and Status of Research,' published in the proceed-
ings of the Conference on Fresh Water Fish Culture, Ottawa, January 3rd, 1936.
The experimental hatchery contains four large glass aquaria 5' x 3' x 26" of
water; six galvanized iron troughs, 2'4" x 6" x 6" of water; and four troughs,
5' x IOV2" X 5" of water. (The small galvanized iron and wooden troughs were
painted on the inside with paraffin varnish). Thus the experiments were divided
into three groups and in each unit of each group, similar conditions prevailed. In
each group a control unit was set up in which beef liver was used as a standard
for comparison with the other feedings. Two per cent, by weight of cod-liver oil
was added to all feedings. The diets used are tabulated below, indicating any
changes made during the course of the experiments.
The diets used in the experiment and the percentages of the various constit-
uents were as follows:
Diet No.
Food
Percentage
1
Beef Liver
100
Group A
Glass
2a
2b
Beef Liver
Alewives
Beef Liver
Alewives
75
25
50
50
Feb. 3/36
Tanks
3a
3b
Beef Liver
Soybean Meal
Beef Liver
Soybean Meal
Pigmeal
75
25
Jan. 27
40
10
50
Jan. 81 Feb. 4
50 50
— 10
50 40
4
Beef Liver
Pilchard Meal
Ling
50
25
25
Sucker substituted for
Ling April 27, 1936.
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Diet Xo.
Pood
Percentage
5
Beef Liver
100
6
Beef Liver
Salmon Egg Meal
75
25
Lake trout egg meal used
until Jan. 10th when sal-
mon egg meal arrived.
7
Beef Liver
Pilchard Meal
75
25
Group B
Tin
Troughs
8
Beef Liver
Beef Heart
Salmon Egg Meal
Fish Mixture
20
14
17
34
Lake trout egg meal sub-
stituted for salmon egg
meal until Jan. 10/36.
9
Beef Liver
Beef Heart
Pilchard Meal
Fish Mixture
20
14
17
34
10
Beef Liver
Hog Melts
Pilchard Meal
Fish Mixture
25
25
25
25
•
11
Beef Liver
Hog Melts
Ling
50
25
25
Group C
12
Beef Liver
Hog Melts
Fish Mixture
50
25
25
Wooden
Troughs
13a
13b
Beef Liver
Hog Melts
Beef Liver
Hog Melts
Salmon Egg Meal
75
25
Jan. 18, 1936
50
25
25
14
Beef Liver
100
The fish mixture referred to was a mixture of equal weights of the flesh of the
common sucker and ling. In the case of the alewife and gizzard shad, the entire
fish was ground up.
Each unit of each group was fed the same weight of food and the amount fed
was regulated in such a way that a minimum of uneaten particles was left on the
bottom of the tank or troughs. Since there is no accurate way of measuring this
waste food and since it was fairly uniform in each unit of each group, it was not
included in the calculations.
At regular intervals the fish were weighed and the weight increase for that
period was obtained. From this, the increase in weight for 100 fish could be
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calculated and by taking the total increase in weight per 100 fish for the duration
of the experiment and dividing it into the total amount of food fed per 100 fish
the number of grams (or pounds) of food required to produce one gram (or pound)
increase in weight of the fish was determined. This figure is called the 'eflBciency
factor.' Naturally, the lower this figure is, the more eflBcient the food.
Summarizing the details of the experiment we have the following results:
1. Diets 3a and 3b cannot be considered since, after feeding for a period of 132
days the fish began to die from an intestinal disorder which could only be
blamed on the diet.
2. Diet No. 4 cannot truly be compared with the other diets of group A, since
rainbow trout were fed, whereas the other diets of the group were fed to
speckled trout. A different growth rate would be expected. However, it should
be stated that these fish progressed in health and weight very satisfactorily and
there was every reason to believe that the diet was a good one.
3. Diets 2a and 2b excelled diet No. 1, namely the liver control, as shown in the
following table:
Ck)st for one pound increase in fish weight
Diet No. Diets 2a and 2b Liver Control for same
and 2a+2b Period
2 a 62.5c 84.0c
2 b 69.2c 107.1c
2a+2b 67.4 95.5c
4. In Grroup B the diets appear in the following order from the standpoint of
economy, namely, 8, It), 7, 9, 6, and 5 (liver control).
5. In Group C diet 13a is the only one that showed any improvement over the liver
control diet No. 14. The addition of salmon egg meal to this diet apparently
proved uneconomical in this case.
6. Diet 2 appears to have excellent possibilities as an economical trout food. In
view of the absence of suitable refrigeration facilities, at trout rearing stations,
the use of raw fish products as food, during the summer months, is surrounded
by many practical difficulties. During the winter, this difiiculty can be over-
come to a considerable extent, but there is the additional difficulty of keeping
the fish in a wholesome condition for long periods. Processing the whole fish
into a meal is a practical way of handling this food, and obviates the
possibility of transferring fish parasites in the raw fish food. We have had
several tons of alewives processed and found the meal mixed with raw beef liver
equally as good as the fresh fish. The question of drying the fish has been
considered, but this method has not been used to date, for the reason that
quantities of alewives were difficult to obtain during that period when air drying
would be most practicable.
Diet 13a should also be considered as well as the diets of Group B. Diets 8, 9,
and 10 of this group include fresh fish and would present the same problem
regarding preservation as diet 2. Diets 6 and 7 do not present these difficulties.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In conclusion I desire to publicly express my appreciation of the assistance and
support received by the Department from many sources during the year 1935-36.
Our work, which at times may be somewhat difficult and perhaps onerous, has
been made the more pleasant and enjoyable by reason of the continued co-operation
of interested persons and the various Fish and Game Protective Associations which
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36 21
exist throughout the Province, and the personal contacts of myself with the officers
and members of many of these organizations, and the assurances derived therefrom,
are an evidence of the fact that the genuine sportsmen of this Province are interested
in the work of the Department in every line of its endeavour, and more particularly
in the policy and practice being followed to ensure a perpetuation for the mutual
advantage of all our people of the wild life natural resources of this Province.
Mention might also be made of the fact that generally speaking, members of
the staff, both the inside and the outside service, have conducted themselves and
performed the duties assigned to them in the best interests of the Department and
its varied activities.
All of Which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Gatne and Fisheries
Toronto, March 10, 1937.
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OP FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Boat Lake 5,000
Durham:
Lake Scugog 15,000
Muskoka:
Butterfly Lake 5,000
Leach Lake 5,00'0
Norfolk:
Little Lake 5,000
Parry Sound:
Crawford Lake, also called
Otter Lake 5,000
Deer Lake (Lount) also
called Ferry Lake 5,000
Peterborough:
Round Lake 10,00'0
Pearson's Lake, also called
Wright's Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Boyne River 10,00'0
Little Lake (Tay Tp.) ... 25,000
Lake Simcoe 15,000
Orr Lake 10,000
Victoria:
Mud Lake, also called Dal-
rymple Lake 10,'000
FINGERLINGS
Lincoln:
Twenty Mile Creek, also
called Jordan Pond
1,000
Norfolk:
Little Lake
1,153
ADULTS
Carleton:
McKay Creek, also called
Hemlock Creek
6
Kent:
Rondeau Bay
15
Waterloo:
Grand River
6
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Boat Lake . . .
Cameron Lake
5,00'0
2,500
Bruce — Cont.
Cyprus Lake 2,500
Gould Lake 10,00-0
Lake Isaac 5,000
Sauble River 10,000
Carleton:
Rideau River 25,000
Elgin:
Pinafore Lake 10,t)00
Union Pond 5,000
Frontenac:
Antoine Lake 5,000
Bull Lake 5,000
Collins Lake 5,000
Crow Lake 2,50t)
Loughboro Lake 10,000
Mississagagon Lake 5,000
Reed's Lake 5,00-0
Sharbot Lake 10,00*0
Sydenham Lake 2,500
Grey:
Saugeen River 25,000
Wilcox Lake 5,000
Hastings:
Crow Lake 5,000
Deer River l.-OOO
Kamaniskeg Lake 10,000
Moira River 10,000
Huron:
Bluevale River 10,00*0
' Bennett's Lake 5,0*00
Black Lake 5,000
Christie Lake 5,000
Mississippi Lake 10,000
Otty Lake 10,0*00
Pike Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Leeds:
Cranberry Lake 5,00*0
Gananoque Lake 10,0*00
Grippen Lake 5,000
Rideau Lake (Wolfe Lake) 25,000
Sand Lake 5,0*00
Troy Lake 5,00*0
Lincoln:
Twelve Mile Creek 10,000
Muskoka:
Bass Lake 5,000
Big Rat Lake 5,00*0
Black Creek 5,0*00
Bull Head Lake 5,000
Deer Lake (Stephenson) . . 5,000
Koshee Lake 5,00*0
Leonard Lake 5,000
Muskoka Lake 2*0,000
Poverty Lake 5,000
Riley's Lake 5,0*00
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Muskoka — Cont.
Rosseau Lake 20,000
Six Mile Lake 10,000
Sucker Creek 5,000
Three Mile Lake 5,000
Wood Lake 5,000
Norfolk :
Waterford Pond 5,000
Northumberland:
Brighton Bay 5,000
Crow River 5,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 5,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 10,'000
Bear Lake S.DOO
Beaver Lake 5,000
Blue Lake 5,000
Commanda Lake 5,00*0
Crane Lake 5,000
Deer Lake (McKenzie) also
called Wah-Wash-Kesh ... 10,000
Deer Lake (Lount) also
called Ferry Lake 10,1)00
Doe Lake 10,000
Jack's Lake 5,000
Lake of Many Islands . . . 5,000
Limestone Lake 5,000
Little Clam Lake 1'0,000
Lynch Lake 5,000
Magnetawan River 10,000
Manitowaba River 5,000
Mill Lake 5,'000
Restoule Lake 10,000
Rausch Lake, also called
Long Lake 5,000
Stormy Lake 5,000
Sucker Lake 5,000
Trout Lake (McDougall) . 5,000
Trout Lake (Humphrey) . 10,000
Whitestone Lake 5,000
Wilson Lake 5,000
Wolf River 10,000
Prince Edward:
Consecon Lake 5,000
Renfrew:
Corry Lake, also called
Chalk Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Lake Couchiching 15,000
Severn River 20,000
Victoria:
Mud Lake, also called Dal-
rymple Lake 10,000
Waterloo:
Grand River 15,000
New Dundee Creek,
called Alden Creek .
Speed River
also
FINGERLINGS
Addington:
Beaver Lake
White Lake
Algoma:
Basswood Lake, also called
Waquekobing Lake
Clear Lake, also called Wa-
komata Lake
Gawas Bay (North Chan-
nel)
Pipe Lake
Stuart Lake
Lake George, St. Joseph's
Channel, and Pine Island .
(St. Mary's River)
5.'000
10,000
800
800
2,000
2,000
2,'000
l.DOO
1,000
6,000
Brant:
Big Creek 7.000
Bruce:
Chesley Lake 5,00t)
Durham:
Rice Lake 2,00t)
Elgin:
Lake Pinafore 765
Frontenac:
Black Lake 500
Elbow Lake 500
Gull Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Portland) ... 500
Long Lake (Clarendon.) al-
so called Kash-wak-a-mak 5t)0
Potspoon Lake 50*0
Shawenigog Lake, also cal-
led McClintock Lake 500
White Lake 1,000
Glengarry:
St, Lawrence River 3,000
Haliburton:
Miserable Lake 1,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake l.O'O'O
Gunter Lake 500
Little Salmon Lake 500
Loon Lake (Bangor Twp.) 500
Moira Lake, also called Hog
Lake 1,000
Otter Lake 500
Tongamong Lake 501)
Trout Lake 500
Weslemkoon Lake 500
York River 500
Kent:
Rondeau Bay 15,000
Lanark:
Round Lake 1.000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Leeds:
Charleston Lake 1,500
Cranberry Lake 1,00X)
Grippen Lake 1,000
Otter Lake 1,000
South Lake 1,000
Whitefish Lake 1,000
Manitoulin:
Tobacco Lake 2,5*00
Middlesex:
Pond Mills 1,000
Thames River 12,200
Muskoka:
Duck Lake 1,000
Joseph Lake 2,000
Long Lake 1,000
Pine Lake 10,000
Lake Rosseau 2,000
Sparrow Lake 10,000
Northumberland :
Crow Bay 500
Crow River 1,51)0
Trent River 1,00*0
Parry Sound:
Deer Lake, also called
Wah-Wash-Kesh Lake,
Simcoe:
Little Lake (Vespra)
1,000
Peterborough :
Belmont Lake 1,000
Deer Lake (Belmont) . . . 1,000
Deer Lake (Cavendish) . . 1,000
Jack's Lake, also called
White's Lake 1,'000
Lovesick Lake 1,000
Oak Lake 1,000
Round Lake 1,000
Renfrew:
Andrews Lake, also called
Rosebank Lake 5*00
Gould Lake 500
Kurd's Lake also called
Hond's Lake 501)
Maves Lake 500
1,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 2,000
Cameron Lake 1,000
Pigeon Lake 1,0 O'O
Round Lake 1,000
Sturgeon Lake 2,000
Waterloo:
Conestoga Stream 1,000
River Nith 1,000
Grand River 15,500
Wellington:
Puslinch Lake 1,000
YEARLINGS
Manitoulin:
Tobacco Lake
Kagawong Lake
Middlesex:
Thames River
Waterloo:
Grand River
ADULTS
Carleton:
McKay Creek, also called
Hemlock Creek
Kent:
Rondeau Bay
Middlesex:
Thames River
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake, also called
Burdette Lake
Jackfish Lake
Waterloo:
Grand River .
56
800
161
44
12
7
39
Sudbury:
Miscellaneous planting — Fingerlings,
Adults, and Yearlings
Windy Lake 300
Lake Penage 2,000
MASKINONGE
Durham:
Rice Lake 5'0,0D0
Hastings:
Crow Lake 50,000
Northumberland:
Crow Bay 20,000
Trent River 45,000
Peterborough:
Chemong Lake 25,0D0
Clear Lake 50,000
Round Lake 20,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 50,000
Stump Lake (Pigeon
River) 100,000
Sturgeon Lake 50,000
PICKEREL
Addington:
Beaver Lake 150,00D
White Lake 250,000
Algoma:
Basswood Lake, also called
Waquikobing Lake 125,000
Crane Lake 50,00D
Echo Lake 1,754,000
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WATERS. 1935-36 — Continued
Pickerel — Continued
Algoma — Cont.
Gordon Lake 125,000
Keichel Lake SOO.O'Ot)
Little Clear Lake 125,000
Mississauga River 1,000,000
Rock Lake 125,t)00
St. Mary's River 2,500,000
Bruce:
Boat Lake 250,000
Lake Chesley 100,0'0'0
Lake Isaac 250,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 900,000
Rideau River 75t);000
Durham:
Rice Lake 2,000,000
Frontenac:
Bass Lake, also called
Victoria Lake 200,000
Bull Lake 150,000
Crow Lake 100,000
Gull Lake 500,000
Loughborough Lake .... 500,000
Mississagagon Lake 250,000
Sharbot Lake 200,000
Seeley's Bay 500,000
Thirteen Island Lake .... 200,000
Grey:
Saugeen River 250,000
Haliburton:
Long Lake (Lutterworth). 50,0'0'0
Paudash Lake 500,000
Hastings:
Bear Lake (Limerick) . . . 100,000
Deer River 100,'000
Hog Lake 250,000
Lakeview Lake 150,000
Latta's Creek, also called
Moira, or Sayer's River. 150,000
Malord's Lake 1'0'0,000
Papineau Creek 250,000
Salmon Trout Lake, also
called Bartlett's Lake.. 150,000
Tongamong Lake 250,000
Kenora:
Big Vermilion Lake 5,000,000
Eagle Lake 2,500,000
Gun Lake 500,000
Marchington Lake 2,00'0,'000
Stanzihikimi Lake 2,000,000
Lake of the Woods 26,000,000
Lanark:
Beaver Lake 2'00,000
Bennett's Lake 300,000
Black Lake 100,000
Christie Lake 250,000
Dalhousie Lake 200,000
Pipe Lake 150,000
White Lake also called
Wabalak Lake 5'0t),000
Leeds:
Bass Lake 100,000
Green's Lake, also called
Red Horse Lake 100,000
Rideau Lake 1,500,000
Sand Lake 100,000
Lincoln:
Twelve Mile Creek 500,000
Manitoulin:
Mudge Bay S'O'O.OOO
Muskoka:
Allan's Lake 50,000
Axe Lake 200,000
Black Lake 200, Ot)"©
Brandy Creek, also called
Sucker Creek 50,000
Leonard Lake 100,000
Mootes Lake S'O.'OOO
Muskoka Lake 1,000,000
Riley Lake 200,000
Rosseau Lake 1,90*0 ,000
Six Mile Lake 500,000
Sparrow Lake 2,000,000 eggs
Nipissing:
Jumping Caribou Lake. . . 150 ,"000
Lake Timagami 2,000,000
Morton Lake 250,000
Nosbonsing Lake 500,'000
Red Cedar Lake 250,000
Talon Lake 250,000
Tilden Lake 100,0'00
Tomiko Lake 300,000
Trout Lake (Widdifield) . . 250,000
Turtle Lake 20'0,'000
Wickstead Lake 250,000
Wilson Lake 100,000
Northumberland :
Crow Bay 200,0t)0
Crow River 500,000
Trent River 1,200,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 2'0'0,000
Parry Sound:
Crawford, or Otter Lake. . 50,000
Ahmic Lake 1,000,000
Bain Lake 50,00t)
Bass Lake (Patterson) .. 200,000
Boundry Lake 200,000
Chain of Lakes (Monteith) 15t),000
Commanda Lake 200,000
Crane Lake 200,000
Deer Lake, also called
Wah-Wash-Kesh
(McKenzie) 30t),000
Deer Lake, also called
Ferry Lake (Ferry Twp.) 250,000
Doe Lake 300,000
Dogfish Lake 250, OOt)
Georgian Bay 2,000,000
Jack's Lake, also called
Murphy's Lake, and Ratz
Bay 50,000
Isabella Lake lt)0.000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OP FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 19 35-36 — Continued
PICKEREL — Continued
Parry Sound — Cont.
Kagiwong, also called Pick-
erel River or Dollar
Lake 100,000
Lake of Many Islands . . . 250,000
Oastler's Lake 100,000
Otter Lake (Foley) 250,000
Portage Lake 250,000
Rainy Lake 50,000
Restoule Lake 200,000
Sequin River 200,000
Shawanaga Lake 250,0'00
Stormy Lake 100,000
Whitestone Lake 200,000
Wilson Lake 50,000
Wolf River 250,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 500,000
Chemong Lake 500, 0*00
Deer Lake (Belmont) . . . 100,000
North River 450,000
Oak Lake 200,'000
Otonabee River, and
Little Lake 300,000
Round Lake 200,000
Seeright's Bay 50,000
Indian River 250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 2,250,000
Rainy River:
Beaverhouse Lake lOO.'OO'O
Clearwater, or Burdette
Lake 2,000,000
Off Lake 1,000, 0*00
Quill, or Feather Lake . . . 2,000,000
Rainy Lake 82,900,00'0
Red Gut Bay 2,000,000
Windigoostigwan Lake, or
Windigo Lake 500,0'0'0
Renfrew:
Madawaska River 300,000
Norway Lake 150,000
Nakine Lake 20'0,'000
White Lake 200,000
York Branch River 250,000
Simcoe:
Cook's Lake, or Farlan's
Lake 250,000
Couchiching Lake 3;000,000
Little Lake (Vespra) .... 250,000
Matchedash Bay 2,300,000
Nottawasaga Bay 750,000
Severn River (Cloucester
Pool) 2,000,000
Sudbury:
Charles Billies Lake .... 100,t)00
Long Lake, or Walker Lake 500,000
Lost Lake, or Ramsay Lake 500,000
French River 1,000,000
Lake Penage 2,000,000
Murray Lake 150,000
Veuvenue, or Ratter Lake 250,000
Wahnapitae Lake 500,000
Washigama Lake 200,000
Thunder Bay:
Lake Shebandowan 2,000,000
Temiskaming:
("C" indicates Cochrane District)
C. Barbers Bay 250,0'00
Bay Lake, Montreal River 200,000
C. Big Water Lake 200,00'0
C. Reid Lake 50,0'00
Sesekinika Lake 500,000
Lake Temiskaming 500,000
C. Wilson Lake 50,0'00
Victoria:
Little Mud Turtle Lake . . 100,000
Mud Lake, or Dalrymple
Lake 250,000
Round Lake 5'0,00'0
Young's Lake 50,000
Waterloo:
Grand River 2,000,000
Welland:
Patterson Lake 50'0,00'0
Great Lakes:
Lake Huron 16,700,000
North Channel 5,000,00'0
Lake Superior 14,425,00*0
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Bruce:
Formosa Creek (Culross) . 3,000
Formosa Pond (Carrick) . 2,000
Durham:
Baldwin's, or Wilmott's
Creek 5,'000
Baxter's Creek 5,000
Cavan Creek 5,'000
Orono Creek, and Mill
Pond 3,000
Grey:
Saugeen River 20,000
Snipe Creek 5,0'00
Sydenham River 5,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 3,0X10
Hastings:
Squire's Pond 5,000
Muskoka:
Sage Creek 5,000
Sharp's Creek 5,000
Norfolk:
Brown Creek: 3,000
Northumberland :
Brown's Pond 2,000
Oxford:
Whiteman's Creek 10,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36— Continued
15ROWN TROUT — CJontinued
Peterborough:
Dickson's Creek 3,000
Jack's Creek 5,000
Temiskaming:
Larder Lake 10,00'0
Waterloo:
Grand River 5,000
ADULTS
Carleton:
Rideau River (from Ottawa
Exhibition) 6
YEARLINGS
Brant:
Branch Creek
1,000
Bruce:
Vogt's, or Adamsville Creek
1,000
Elgin:
Little Otter River
i.oo-o
Grey:
Beaver River
Big Head River
1,000
l.OOt)
Sydenham River
1,D00
Halton :
Sixteen Mile Creek
500
Hastings:
Rawdon's Creek
X,000
Waterloo:
Bridgeport Mill Dam ....
Fisher Mill Creek
Experimental purposes . . .
300
700
lot)
Wellington:
River Sneed
5*00
York:
Humber River
550
LAKE TROUT
FRY
Addington:
Black Lake 10,000
White Lake 25,000
Frontenac:
Buck Lake 10,000
Dog Lake 25,00*0
Gould Lake 15,000
Grindstone Lake 5,000
Loughborough Lake 30,000
Mississagagon Lake 25,00*0
Schooner Lake 25,000
Sharbot Lake 20,000
Trout Lake, or Palmerston
Lake 25,000
Haliburton:
Boskung Lake 20.0t)0
Davis Lake 5,000
Devil's Lake 15.000
Drag Lake 20,000
Gull Lake 30,0*00
Paudash Lake 15,001)
Pine Lake 10,000
Twelve Mile Lake 10,000
Sheldon's Lake 5,00*0
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 50,000
Big Salmon Lake 5,000
Eagle Lake 15,000
Jamieson Lake 10,000
John's Lake 10,000
Hardwood Lake 10,000
Papineau Lake 10,000
Salmon Lake 5,'000
St. Peter Lake 15.000
Sylva Lake 5.000
Tongamong Lake 15,000
Weslemkoon Lake St), 000
Leeds:
Red Horse Lake 25,01)0
Rideau Lake 15D,000
Muskoka:
Mary Lake 25.000
Nipissing:
Morton Lake 50,000
Red Cedar Lake 50.0D0
Sturgeon Lake 25.000
Trout Lake 50.000
Turtle Lake 15,000
Parry Sound:
Sollman Lake 25,00D
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 15.000
Loon Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 10.000
Renfrew:
Lake Clear 25,000
Thunder Bay:
Lake Nipigon 50,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 100,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Ontario 767.1)00
Lake Huron 600,000
North Channel 1,000,000
Lake Superior 4,251,034
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 30,000
Basswood, or Waquikobing
Lake 35,000
Chub Lake 15,00D
Clear, or Wakomata Lake. 50,000
Cummings Lake IS.OOD
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36— Continued
LAK£ TROUT — Continued
Algoma — Cont.
Deep Lake 10,000
Diamond Lake 5,0*00
Hawk Lake 10,000
Hobon Lake 15,0'00
Jobammeghia, or Boundry
Lake 25,000
Lake of the Mountains . . 20,000
Long Bear Lake 30,000
Loon, or Northland Lake
(Deroche) 10, 0*00
Magog, or Granny Lake . . 25,000
Patton Lake 15,000
Pickerel Lake 10,000
Sand, Lake 30,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) . . . 10,0*00
Trout Lake (24-R-12) ... 25;000
Upper Island Lake 5,000
Bruce:
Gillies Lake 50,000
Haliburton:
Bear Lake (Livingstone) . . 10,000
Clearwater, or Hardwood
Lake 5,000
Crooked Lake (Guilford) . 15,-000
East Lake 5,00*0
Raven Lake 10,000
Spruce Lake 5,000
Kenora:
Big Vermilion Lake 50,000
Dogtooth Lake 50,000
Eagle Lake 50,000
Gun Lake 25,000
Lake of the Woods 895,000
Minnitaki Lake 50,00*0
Red Deer Lake 25,'000
Silver Lake 50,000
Trout Lake (Pellatt) . . . 15,000
Vermilion (Little) Lake . . 25,000
Lanark:
Pike Lake 15,000
Charleston Lake 50,'000
Muskoka:
Bruce's Lake 10,000
Clear Lake (Ridout) 15,000
Haley's Lake 10,000
Lake Rosseau 50,000
Lake of Bays 25,000
Muskoka Lake 10,000
Skeleton Lake 25,000
St. Mary's Lake, or Paint
Lake 5,000
Nipissing:
Bear Lake 25,000
Camp Lake 10,000
Lake Timagami 200,000
Oxbow, or Fatty's Lake.. 15,000
Tasso Lake 15,000
Trout Lake (Widdifield) . . 2,400
Parry Sound: ' "
Bay Lake 10,000
Clear Lake (Perry) 15,00*0
Deer Lake 10,0*00
Georgian Bay 4,520,000
Horseshoe Lake, or
Pak-She-Gong-Ga 10,000
Maple Lake 15,*000
Otter Lake 15,0*00
Round Lake 10,000
Salmon Lake 25,000
Sand Lake 15,000
Sucker Lake lO.OO-O
Spring Lake 15,000
Three Legged Lake 25,000
Rainy River:
Steeprock Lake 50,000
Sudbury:
Ella Lake 15,0*00
Loon Lake, or Borden Lake 15,000
Lake Penage 40,000
Ramsay Lake, or Lost
Lake 50,000
Windy Lake 25,00*0
Thunder Bay:
Oliver Lake 10,00*0
White Lake and River. . . 25,000
Temiskaming:
Crystal Lake 5,000
Larder Lake 1,600
Nellie Lake 10,00*0
Perry Lake 10,000
Rib Lake 10,000
Sesekinika Lake 15,000
Lake Temiskaming 2 5, '000
Watabeag Lake 20,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 680,000
North Channel 100,000
Lake Huron 6,555,000
LANDLOCKED SALMON
YEARLINGS
Bruce:
, Gillies Lake 1,500
Grey:
Bass Lake 1,000
Mary Lake 310
Muskoka:
Skeleton 'Lake 1,500
Fairy Lake 750
Muskoka River 1,180
Peninsula Lake 750
Pine Lake 1,250
Nipissing:
Trout Lake 1,70*0
Sudbury:
Wahnapitae Lake 1,700
York:
Lake Simcoe 2,000
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WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
KAMLOOPS TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Constance Lake
Trout Lake (Aweres) . . .
42,464
43,000
YEARLINGS
Muskoka:
Echo Lake
7,796
Nipissing:
Bloom Lake
3.000
RAINBOW TROUT
Bruce:
Teeswater River — Little
Dam 5,000
Dufferin:
Pine River 4,000
Elgin:
Howes Pond 575
St. Thomas City Reservoir. 20,000
Grey:
Leake's Pond 1,500
Minke's Lake «... 5,000
Sheppard's Lake 8,00'0
Stewart's Lake 5,000
Sydenham River 5,0'00
Townsend's Lake 1,500
Leeds:
South Lake 3,000
Norfolk:
Black Creek 12,50*0
Simcoe:
Bear Creek 4,000
Brough's Creek 5,000
Coldwater River 11,5*00
Sturgeon River 6,50*0
York:
Doan's Pond 5,000
Humber River 13,'000
Lake Simcoe 13,000
Private waters (Sales) . . 5,000
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Carleton:
Rideau River 6
Thunder Bay:
Mirror Lake 3
York:
Humber River 5
Private waters (Sales) ... 3*00
SPECKLED TROUT
FRY
Haliburton:
Fletcher Lake 100,000
Hollow River 50,000
Slipper Lake 20,000
Wolf Lake 15,01)0
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 100,000
Bear Creek (Dungannon) . 5,000
Diamond Lake 15,000
Egan Creek 10,000
Lake St. Peter 100.000
Muskoka:
Bella Lake St), 000
Dotty's Lake 50,00D
Echo Lake 20.000
Lake of Bays 450,000
Loon Lake Creek 10.0'Ot)
Mary Lake 50,000
Muskoka River 150,000
Rebecca Creek 75,000
Rill Lake 7,t)00
Shoe Lake (Ridout Tp.).. 10,000
Skeleton Lake 50,000
Tooke's Lake 25,000
St. Mary's Lake 50,00'0
Nipissing:
Oxbow Lake 25,000
Parry Sound:
Barrett's Creek 15,000
Cottingham Creek 10,000
Deer Lake (Perry Tp.) . . . 10,'0'00
James Creek 10,000
Lynx Lake 15,000
Poole Lake 15,000
Magnetawan River 50,00'0
Ragged Creek 15,000
Rat Lake 5,000
Scharnehorn Lake 25,000
Peel:
Humber River 6,00t)
(Sale) 2.000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 10,000
Agawa Lake 50,000
Alva Lake 7,000
Anjigami Creek 10,000
Batchewana River 15,000
Bellevue Creek 5,000
Boundry Lake 5,00'0
Boyles Creek 3,'000
Bridgeland River 29,500
Caldwell's Lake 5,000
Camp 8 Creek 10,000
Canoe Lake 10,000
Centre Lake 5,000
Chub Lake 15,000
Chippewa River 45,000
Driving, or Victoria Creek 15,000
Foot Lake 5,00t)
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36
31
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Algoma — Cont.
Garden River 10,000
Gavar Lake 7,500
Goulais River 35,000
Gravel River 8,730
Harmony River 10,000
Havilah Lake 5,000
Hawk Lake 10,000
Hoath Lake 5,000
Hobon Lake 15,000
Hubert Lake 16,000
Island Lake 10,000
Jackfish Lake 5,0'00
Jobammeghia Lake 15,00'0
Kennedy Lake 5,000
Lavar Lake 1,000
Loon Lake (24-R-13) 10,000
Loon Lake (Kirkwood) . . rO,0'00
Loon Lake (Deroches) . . . 10,000
Loon Lake Creek 5,000
Loonskin Lake 15,000
Mashagami Lake 20,000
Michipicoten River 15, '000
Mile 58 Lake 5,000
Mongoose Lake (25-R-14) 10,000
Moose Lake (25-R-13)... 10,000
Mountain Lake 5,000
McCormack Lake 5,000
Mclntyre Lake 1,000
McVeigh Creek 20,00'0
One Lake 5,000
Peak Lake 5,000
Pine Lake (2 4-R-13) 7,000
Pine, or Prugh Lake
(24-R-12) 7,000
Pinkney Lake 5,000
Reserve Lake 1'0,0'00
Sand Lake Creek 15,000
Sand River 15,000
Scarbo Lake 5,000
Snowshoe Creek 7,000
Speckled Trout Lake .... 10,000
Speckled Trout Pond .... 2,500
Spruce Lake 10,000
St. Mary's River 25,0'00
Tamarack, or Quintnel
Lake 5,000
Tawabinasay Lake 10,000
Triple Lake 5,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) . . . 15,000
Trout Lake (24-R-12) ... 2,000
Upper and Lower Twin
Lakes 10,000
Unnamed stream (Shields
Tp.) 7,000
Wa-Wa Lake 10,000
Walker Lake 5,000
Wallace Lake 5,000
Waterhole Lake 10,000
Wartz Lake 20,000
White River 50,000
Winchell Lake 1,00*0
Wyel Lake 1,000
Brant:
Moody and Lyons Creeks. 5,000
Bruce:
Judges Creek 20,000
Mullins Pond 3,0'0'0
Spring Creek (Carrick Tp.) 2,000
Spring Creek (Amabel Tp.) 15,000
Sparrows Creek 2,000
Dufferin:
Beaver Meadow Stream... 5,000
Butler's Creek TO ,1)00
Caldwell Creek 2,000
Pine River 15,000
Durham:
Allen's Creek 1,000
Ard's Creek 500
Arnott's Creek 10,0'0'0
Best's Stream 5,000
Brinscombe Creek 1,000
Butter's Creek 500
Cavan Creek 15,000
DeLong Creek 5,'0'00
Jamieson Pond 3,000
Harris Creek 2,000
Haydon Stream 5,000
Ganaraska River 5,000
Gardner's Pond 7,0'0'0
Mercer's Pond 3,200
McKindley's Creek 5,000
McLaughlin Creek 4,000
Nicholson Creek 1,000
Orono Creek 500
Rutherford's Creek 1,000
Smith's Creek 3,000
Snowden's Creek 2,500
Elgin:
Ball Creek 20,000
Goodwillie Creek 5,000
Orange Hall Creek 5,000
Frontenac:
Trout Lake 50,000
White Lake (Bedford)
Creek 2,500
Grey:
Bell's Creek 5,000
Bell's Lake 5,000
Big Head River 5'0,000
Camps Creek 5,000
English Lake 15,000
Gardner Lake 15,000
Glen Creek 20,000
Hydro Waters (Eugenia
Pond) 3'0,'000
Maxwell Creek 10,000
Miller Creek 5,000
Morton's Creek 5,000
Pepper's Creek 6,000
Priddle's Spring Creek . . . rO,'000
Rob Roy Creek 10,000
Rocky Saugeen River 10,000
Saugeen River 55,000
Sydenham River 35,00t)
Trout Creek (Sydenham) . 25,000
Williams Lake 10,000
Haliburton:
Bear Creek (Glamorgan) . 5,000
Blue Lake 5,00*0
Hollow Lake 100,00*0
Kimball Lake 30,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Haliburton — Cont.
McCue Creek 10, 00*0
McFadden's Lake IS.OOt)
Otter Lake 25,000
Percy Lake 25,000
Ross Lake 5,00*0
Round Lake 30,00*0
Spring Lake (Livingstone) 10,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 75,000
Brett's Lake 5,0*00
Cedar Creek 15,000
Crooked Lake 50,000
Diamond Lake 15,000
Echo Lake 75,000
Egan Creek 2t),00'0
Fraser Creek 15,000
Geen's Creek 10,000
Green's Lake 20,000
Hick's Lake 25,*000
Little Papineau Creek . . . 10,000
Long Lake 25,000
Squire's Creek 7,000
St. Peter Lake 75,000
Trout Creek (Rawdon Tp.) 5,000
Huron:
Porter's Creek 7,00*0
Stoney, or Coates' Creek.. 2,000
Kenora:
Harris River 5,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Creek 15,*000
Manitoulin:
Blue Jay River 6,000
Manitou River 6,000
Mindemoya River 25,000
Middlesex:
Centre Road Creek 2,500
Muskoka:
Beaver Creek 2,500
Big East River 7,50*0
Buck Lake 15,000
Clear Lake 95,000
Crotch Lake 20,000
Eighteen Mile Lake 30,00*0
Fairy Lake 50,000
Grindstone Lake 10,00*0
Martin Lake 7,000
Muskoka River 15,*000
Lake Vernon 100,000
Little East River 12,000
Peninsula Lak^ 75,000
Poverty Lake 2,500
Red Chalk Lake 10,t)00
Split Rock Lake 2,500
Spring Creek (Watt Tp.). 1,000
Wolf Lake 5,-000
Miscellaneous streams run-
ning into Lake of Bays,
Mary Lake, Fairy Lake,
Peninsula Lake, and Ver-
non Lake 50,000
Nipissing:
Anderson Lake 5,0*00
Black Creek 5,000
Chippewa Creek 7,500
Clear Lake 5,00*0
Dorans Creek 7,500
Duschene Creek 7,500
Four Mile Creek 7,5t)0
George Lake 5,000
Giroux Creek 3,00'0
Hoover's Lake 7,000
Lake Timagami 30,000
Mosquito Creek 7,500
McCarty Creek 5,00*0
Nelson Lake 10,000
Noble Creek 10,000
North River 15,00*0
Oxbow Lake 25,'000
Poor Man's Creek 5,000
Robert Creek 5,000
Toad Lake 10,0*00
Tomiko Lake 7,500
Traverse Creek 6,0*00
White Partridge Creek . . 9,000
Norfolk:
Clear Creek 2,500
Mather Creek 2,50*0
Nanticoke Creek 10,000
Venison Creek 20,*000
Northumberland :
Baltimore Creek 7,500
Beaman Creek 5,000
Big Creek 1,835
Black's Creek 6,800
Bowen's Pond 5,000
Brighton Mill Creek 4,000
Burnley Stream 17,500
Chidley's Creek 2,50*0
Dartford Creek 7,500
Duncan Creek 2,500
Heffernan's Creek 2,000
Little Cole's Creek It), 000
Mill Pond 10,*000
McComb's Creek 7,500
Piper Creek 2,500
Quinn's Creek 2,500
Robin's Creek 2,500
Salt, or Dawson Creek... 15,000
Sandy Flats Creek 15,000
Simpson Creek 5,000
Smithfield Creek 5,000
Taylor Creek 2,500
Trout Creek 10,000
Valleau Creek 2,500
Woodland Creek 5,000
Ontario:
Black Creek 9,000
Chubtown Creek 12,000
Elgin Pond, or lake 6,0*00
Glenhodson Creek 2,500
McLean's Creek 3,000
Oxford:
McCabe's Creek 500
Sutherland's Pond and
creek 2,00*0
ANNUAL. REPORT, 1935-36
33
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF PISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Parry Sound:
Big Clam Lake 15,000
Canoe Lake 10,000
Cashman's Lake ........ 2,500
Comfort Lake 6,000
Deer River 25,000
Eagle Lake 100,000
Ge^esee Creek 15,0*00
. Lake Bernard 25,000
Peel ::
. Credit River 13,000
. Spring, or Secret Creek. . 1,*000
Peterborough:
Buchanan's Creek 5,000
.North River 25,0*00
; Norwood Creek 3,000
Ouse River 30,000
Otter Creek S.ODO
;Plato Cre<3k 15,000
, Scott's Creek 5,000
Renfrew:
.Benoit Lake 3,000
Black Donald Creek 10,000
Birchim Lake T.-OOO
. ;Burns Lake 25,00*0
Calhane Creek lO.^OOO
Christink Lake 10,000
: Dam Lake Creek 15,000
Dan's Lake 8,t)00
Dodge Lake 3,000
Dominic Lake 3,'000
German Lake 5,000
Gun Lake 5,000
, Highland Creek 15.000
. Johnson's Lake 6,000
Little Madawaska River. . 9,00*0
Lake Clear 6,000
Lower and Upper Long
. . Lake 15,000
. Madawaska River 20,000
Mason Lake 5,000
McMaster Lake 6,000
Nadeau Creek 10,000
Paddy's Lake 6,000
Petawawa River 12,00*0
. Rock Lake 4,000
Trout Lake (Head) 5,000
Young's Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Creek in Tecumseh 5,000
Silver Creek 2*0,000
Sudbury:
Clear Lake 31,000
Garson Creek 12,000
Post Creek 10,000
Poulin Creek 15,000
Sandcherry Creek 12,0*00
Trout Lake (Roberts Tp.) 20,000
Trout Lake #6 5,000
Veuve River 15,000
Thunder Bay:
Ada Lake 10,00*0
Ann Lake : 10,000
Allen Creek 5,000
Allen Lake 10,000
Anderson's Creek 2,'000
Anderson Lake 5,000
Bass Lake 5,0*00
Bender Lake 2,000
Big Duck Creek 3,000
Brule Creek 4,000
Caribou Creek 4,000
Caribou Island Lake .... 3,000
Charlotte Lake 5,000
Clearwater Lake 3,000
Corinne Lake 4,'000
Coldwater River 47,000
Cousineau Lake 5,000
Current River 62,700
Deep Lake 7,000
Deception Lake 7,000
Echo Lake 5,'000
Fox Lake 5,00*0
Fraser Creek 114,000
Grange Lake 4,900
Gravel Lake 6,000
Ham Lake 3,000
Hilma Lake 5,'0'00
Kajander Lake 5,000
Kowkash and Squaw
Rivers 50,000
Loon Lake (McTavish) . . 15,000
Loon Creek 1,50*0
Loftquist Lake 15,0*0*0
Little Lake 5,000
Mac's Lake 2,000
Mirror Lake 5,000
Moose Lake, near
Schreiber 3,000
Moose Lake, near Pearl. . 1,5*0*0
Mclntyre Creek 20,000
Mclntyre River 22,000
McKenzie River 16,000
McVicar's Creek 10,00*0
McVicar's Lake 5,*000
Neebing River 10,000
Nipigon Lake 100,00*0
Nipigon River 164,000
Ninety Minute Lake 5,00*0
Pitch Creek 6,000
Pearl River 52,000
Servais Lake 2,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Silver Islet Creek 1*0,000
Small McKenzie Lake . . . 5,000
Strawberry Creek 9,5*00
. Sunset Lake 7,000
Trout Lake (Gorham) . . . 5,000
Twin Creek 2,000
Twin Lake 1,'000
Webb Lake 10,0*00
White River 10,000
Wigan Lake 3,000
Wideman Lake 7,000
Whitewood Creek 6,0*00
Wolf River 3,000
Temiskaming:
(Prefix "C" indicates Cochrane
District)
Blanche River 5,000
C. Charlebois Lake 5,000
C. Croft's Creek 5,0*00
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — CJontinued
Temiskaming — Cont.
Crooked Creek 5,000
C. Dandurant Creek 5,000
Dickson Creek 2,500
C. Dome Creek 2,500
C. Fuller's Creek 7.500
Gleason Creek 7,500
C. Grassy River 7,50X)
Hairway Lake 5,000
C. Hooker Creek 5,000
Johnston Lake 5,00*0
Latour Creek ll,50t)
C. Legare Creek 5,000
C. Metagami River 7,500
Munroe Lake 5,000
C. Mclnytre Pond 2,500
Pike Creek 4,000
C. Red Sucker Creek and
River 7,500
C. Rowley Lake 5,'000
C. Ramsbottom Creek 5,t)00
Sesekinika Lake 7,500
C. Shaw's Creek 5,000
Small Spot Creek 7,500
Spring Creek (Firstbrook) 4,500
Watabeag River 15,000
C. Water Hen Creek 5,00*0
Waterloo:
Elora Creek 10,000
Erbsville Creek 20,000
Grand River 15,0t)0
Jedburgh Dam 3,0t)0
Groves Creek 10,000
Mannheim Creek 20,000
Speed River 10,0*00
St. Jacob's Creek 3,000
Welland:
Sulphur Springs 5,000
Twelve Mile Creek 7,000
Wellington:
Creek in Luther Twp 5, "000
Ospringe Creek 5,0*00
Private Waters (Sales) ... 3,637
Demonstration 29
ADULTS
Algoma:
St. Mary's River 584
Island Lake (Aweres Tp.) 764
Lanark:
Paul's Creek 12
Norfolk:
Crane Creek 45
Gravel Pit Pond 295
Northumberland :
Marsh Creek (Yearlings
and Adults) 311
Thunder Bay:
Mirror Lake 2,675
Private waters (Sales and
demonstration) 734
YEARLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Creek 1,000
Bridgland River 1,000
Chub Lake 1,000
Deer Lake l.OOt)
Garden River 1,0*00
Gravel River 1,000
Harmony River 1,000
Heyden Lake 1,000
Kaskowan River 1,'000
Lower Island Lake 50t)
McLeod's Creek 1,000
Pancake River 1,000
Patton River 1,000
Skookum Lake 1,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) ... l.WO
Upper Island Lake
(Aweres) 500
Upper Island Lake (176). 1,000
Grey:
Bell's Creek 1,000
Beaver River 1,000
Norfolk:
Crane Creek 166
Ontario:
Glenhodson Creek 486
Peel:
Humber River S
Thunder Bay:
Cedar Creek l,0t)t)
Current River 1,000
Deception Lake 1,000
Ghost Lake 250
Golden Gate Lake 300
Loon Lake (McTavish) . . l,00t)
Lost Lake l,t)00
Mirror Lake 6,011
Mosquito Creek 1,000
Mclntyre River 1,000
McVicars Creek 2,0t)0
Neebing River 1,000
Waterloo:
Private waters (Sales and
demonstration) 212
WHITEFISH
Kenora:
Eagle Lake l.DOO.OOO
Lake of the Woods 8, 500, 0*00
Manitoulin:
Bay Finn (McGregor Bay) 2,000,000
Parry Sound:
Georgian Bay 82,040,t)0t)
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 92,000,000
Wentworth:
Lake Ontario 16,180,00'0
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36
35
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
WATERS, 1935-36 — Continued
WHITEFISH — Continued Peterboro:
Loon Lake (Chandos) . . . 500,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 44, 942, 0*00 Prince Edward:
Lake Huron 31,720,000 Bay of Quinte 36,76'0,000
North Channel 4,540,00D
Lake Superior 13,560,000
GOLDE]^ SHINERS
296,482,000 Frontenac:
White Lake (Olden) 500
HERRING
Frontenac: i>i?wrrn
White Lake (Olden) 1,-000,000 riiiK^ti
xT«o*««««. Great Lakes:
""^laptfsie Lake 50t),000 ^^^^ ^"« 53,031,40t)
Lake St. Peter 1,000,000
Charleston Lake l,000,t)00
Rideau Lake 3,000,t)00
36 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
ANNUAL REPORT, 19^36-36
37
APPENDIX No. 2
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES — 1933 TO 1935, INCLUSIVE.
1933
1934
1935-36
Large-mouthed
Black Bass — Fry
Fingerlings ,
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed
Black Bass — Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults.
Maskinonge — Fry
Perch — Fry
Pickerel — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Brown Trout — Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Lake Trout — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Land-locked
Salmon Yearlings
(Ouananiche) —
Rainbow Trout — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Kamloops Trout — Fingerlings
Yearlings
Speckled Trout — "fcyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults . .
Whitefish — Fry
Herring — Fry
Golden Shiners —
TOTALS —
856
545,00t)
25,750
3.471
20,500,t)00
483,016
674
200.000
1.4t)0,000
16.012.70'0
27,016
506.000
725,000
5,950,255
28,237
1,549
372.111,000
22,805,000
441,325.524
35,250
4,250
197
365,500
35,750
420
909,500
95,0*00,000
5,t)00,000
278,470,000
138,000
14,500
689
402,000
1,265,000
14,045,450
1,000
4,480
312,512
25.014
6,257.267
34,762
1,652
376,777,000
17,512,000
7,000
796,619,193
130,000
2,153
27
696,'000
153,065
3,435
460,0*00
53,031,400
2,000,000
229,629,'000
109.000
9,650
6
7,773,034
14,564,000
13,640
134,t)75
314
85.464
10.796
1,645.000
5,013.831
35,421
5,420
296,482,00*0
43,760,000
500
655,747,231
Note: The 1935-36 total does not include the distribution for the five months
period — Nov. 1, 1934, to March 31, 1935.
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
No.
Tons
Value
Gasoline
Launches
No.
Sail and
Row Boats
Value No. Value
Gill Nets
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgrian Bay
Lalee Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
447
322
196
482
375
145
883
674
464
3,988
22
379
170
449
490
$ 7,000
53,000
48,000
142,750
121,500
28
878
210,500
6,500
156
52
38
129
124
54
212
199
16
84
2.396
$589,250 980
I 71,450
330 $ 11,8831
29,525
1 62 3.6901
32,555
761 5,6041
109,570
941 6,6351
81,680
48
3.095
13,480
88
3.995
200,900
182
10.707
85,940
214
6.862
4,960
169
5.244
$630,060
1.263
$57,715
$ 444,025 $
832.880
397.850
1.096.295
1,023.075
1.525,400
937,700
58,725
84,075
52,100
111,839
133,385
i76i825
81,805
$6,257,225
$698,754
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
572
1,296,789
574
21.168
271.255
125
96,162
835.687
6,676
1,303,630
377.416
304,084
1.292.228
340,327
1,605
1,190,121
657.403
11,621
213,710
1,518.439
710,907
1.475.312
2,069.223
885.070
9.669
88.431
70,010
934
20.579
8,175
111.758
21,9961
1
18.858
1,549.426
72.894
65.627
88,380
Lake Superior . .
North Channel
Georgian Bay
1.315
525
5.064.296
38,428
75
275.352
Lake St Clair ...
34,503
319.311
28.526
2,924
Lake Erie
333
244.862
23,550
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
2.528.958
5,478,435
6,256.336
1.216.622
1
5.122.997
2,431,943
Values
$126,447.90
$602,627.86
$688,196.96
$72,997.32
$256,149.85
$267,513.73
ANNUAL REPORT, 1935-36
39
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
of Ontario, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1935.
MBNT
S«ine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
Night Unes
Spears
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
Yards
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Hooks
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No
Value
566
80
9.810
14,600
2,840
7,290
.......
675
30
4,927
9.440
1,245
5.735
42
34
110
86
120
112
590
$13,060
10.485
49,100
80,700
84,200
11,635
303,750
37
$1,115
1.200
$ 200
150
36
43
60
68
30
114
33
37
$ 31,810
21,525
12,305
15,875
120
46
34
61
$ 14.670
11,185
13,875
33,380
8,710
1.650
51,235
5,005
286
$ 209,913
213,485
213.561
506,661
"3
17
*"*22
82
5
39
14
757
227
520
"306
15,460
5.038
"'2
8
32
2
40
9.9.(i
29,046
19,690
2,550
3,450
5,500
9,510
4,635
2,070
170
74
218
290
24,475
9.175
138,135
8.375
1,803
29
10
80
29
7
459,145
45,034
1,101,912
211,639
25,150
46
55
14
61
64 274
1
190
1,520
182
$35,120
1
$22,052 1,094
1 1 1
552,930 1.074 22,439 106 $ 545
1
70,946 $7,657
210 $1,624
571J263,478
1
416
$139,996|$2,986,500
1
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
n>s.
lbs.
lbs.
1
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
58.278
71
10.801
967
4.585
7,943
22,433
4,816
576
23,2181 150,689
41,5071 1.227
249,614
93.226
212.205
102.202
51,214
226.370
1.411,217
272.637
1,150
4.496,4491 U^(i.Q2H.lR
3601 90Q nio
140
2.346
16,849
3,788
326,738
618.981
200.864
3.577.994
1.433,426
3,275.206
3.669.718
697,283
14,429,303
2.784.723
851,885
297,372.06
137,299.38
5.039
2.634
178,235
38,967
5.633,452
143,128
14.680
32.884
206,069
472,322
500
4,337
780
39,587
64,096
185,666
28
50
388
341
726
11
336,048.31
350,285.05
37,000.63
794,372.59
60,937
14,010
199,233.22
166,306
309,5731 279,898
1
44 972 Qa
110.470
1
74,947 6,039,713
1,071,004
502,779
1,480,506
2.898,583
2,694
35,215,987
$44,188.00
$5,246.29 $301,985.65
$64,260.24
$40,222.32
$74,025.30
$86,957.49
$2,694.00
$2,633,512.90
i4'0
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES
OF ONTARIO
♦Net Increase
Kind 1934 1935
1
Increase
Decrease
Herring
Pounds
2,876,121
4,922,996
5,295,174
1,095,911
2,432,093
2,292,094
89,884
63,65*0
6,018,541
1,105,158
356,665
1,520,848
3,161,229
2,613
Pounds
2,528,958
5,478,435
6,256,336
1,216,622
5,122,997
2,431,943
110,470
74.947
6,039,713
1,071,004
502,779
1,480,506
2,898,583
2,694
' '555,439
961,162
120,711
2,690,904
139,849
20.586
11,297
21.172
"iieiiii
si
847,163
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (blue) . . .
Pickerel (dore) . . .
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
34,154
Catfish
Carp ;
40,342
Mixed and Coarse .
Caviare
262.646
31,232,977
35.215,987
*3,983,01t)
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1935
KIND
Quantity
Pounds
Price per
Pound
Estimated
Value
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (blue)
Pickerel (dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS . . ,
2,528,958
5.478,435
6,256,336
1.216.622
5,122,997
2,413.943
110,470
74,947
6,039,713
1,071,004
502,779
1,480,506
2,898,583
2,694
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.•08
.05
.03
1.00
126,447.90
602,627.85
688,196.96
72,997.32
256,149.85
267,513.73
44,188.0*0
5,246.29
301,985.65
64,260.24
40,222.32
74,025.30
86,957.49
2,694.00
35,215.987
$2,633,512.9*0
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF ONTARIO FISHERIES FOR A PERIOD OF
TWENTY YEARS 1916-1935 INCLUSIVE
1916 $ 2,658,992.43
1917 2,866,424.00
1918 3,175,110.32
1919 2,721,440.24
1920 2,691,093.74
1921 2,656,775.82
1922 2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926
1927
1928
1929
2.643,686.28
3,229,143.57
3,033,944.42
3,054,282.02
1930 2,539,904.91
1931 2,442,7*03.55
1932 2,286,573.50
1933 2,186.083.74
1934 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
FOR THE FIVE MONTHS' PERIOD
ENDING MARCH 31st, 1935.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1936
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 3 7
TO THE HONOURABLE HERBERT ALEXANDER BRUCE.
a Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, F.R.C.S. (Eng.),
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province oi Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour and
the Legislative Assembly, Report of the Game and Fisheries Department of this
Province for the Five Months' Period ended March 31, 1935.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant.
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department oi Game and Fiaheriea.
Toronto, April 2, 1936.
Report of the Department of Game
and Fisheries
- OF ONTARIO -
For the Five Months Period ended
March 31, 1935
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in chargm,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR: — I have the honour to place before you this Report of the activities of
the Department of Grame and Fisheries during the five months' period, commencing
November 1st, 1934, and ending March 31st, 1935.
In this report it will, of course, be impracticable to attempt comparative state-
ments for obvious reasons, though statistical tables for the period under review have
been prepared and are incorporated herein.
FINANCIAL
The revenue collected by the Department amounted to $258,348.'04, and details
of the various sources from which it was derived are as set forth in the subjoined
table.
REVENUE FOR THE FIVE MONTH PERIOD ENDING MARCH 31, 1935
GAME —
Royalty $ 34,307.15
Licenses —
Trapping $ 14,07'0.90
Non-resident Hunting 30,315.45
Deer 48,684.40
Moose 2,194.50
Gun 39,564.72
Fur Dealers 14,536.00
Fur Farmers 5,585.00
Tanners 156.00
Cold Storage 64.'00
155,170.97
$189,478.12
FISHERIES —
Royalty $ 1,101.67
Licenses —
Fishing 49,243.90
Angling 7,338.85
56,582.75
Sales — spawn taking 61.00
I
57,745.42
(43)
44 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
GENERAL —
Guides' Licenses 37D.00
Fines 3,761.00
Sales — Confiscated Articles, etc 3,696.84
Rent » 1,635. St)
Commission 849.87
Miscellaneous •• -• 811.29
11,124.50
$258,348.04
Quite naturally, the game division brought in by far the greater percentage of
this revenue, — fishing, and more particularly angling, by reason of the weather con-
ditions which prevail during this period being very extensively curtailed. It will be
of interest to state that this revenue exceeded the amount which it was estimated
would be collected.
The exercise of judicious supervision over expenditures was very essential; and
while the total in this respect amounted only to $168,202.67, it is submitted that
the various results achieved were creditable, and that the proportionately reduced ex-
penditures did not noticeably interfere with the proper performance of Departmental
activities or the provision of necessary services. . . :
GAME
In all, some 18,767 licenses to hunt big game, i.e. deer and moose, were issued
under the following divisions: —
Resident licenses to hunt deer 17,584
Resident licenses to hunt moose 399
Non-resident general licenses 397
Non-resident deer licenses 387
In addition we also issued some 317 non-resident licenses to hunt small game
animals and birds.
The foregoing figures are an indication that the attractions which the game of
this Province affords to the interested sportsman and hunter have a prominent place
in our scheme.
A limited distribution of game birds was undertaken during this period, — 417
English ring-necked pheasants and 597 Hungarian Partridge according to De-
partmental records being liberated in different sections of the Province in which
suitable environment for these desirable species of game birds was available.
In the matter of Crown Game Preserves, while much preliminary work was done
in connection with suitable areas which have been subsequently established as Game
Preserves, in only one case, that of the Pond Mills Crown Game Preserve, in the
County of Middlesex, was final action provided, and this was the only Crown Game
Preserve established during the period under review.
FUR
Active trapping operations were, of course, carried on during this period, though
it would include but a very short portion of the open season for the taking of
muskrat, one of the principal mainstays of our trapping industry.
The following table will show the number of pelts of various fur-bearing ani-
mals taken by trapping and sold to licensed fur buyers, as well as the numbers ex-
ported from the Province and dressed within the Province respectively.
REPORT FOR FIVE MONTHS ENDING MARCH 31st, 1935
45
Pelts
Tanned
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross) ....
Fox (red)
Fox (silver black)
Fox (white) ....
Fox (not specified)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk .
Weasel ,
Wolverine
180
4,356
1,451
5,160
27,501
560
904
432
2,180
943
62,162
28,340
2,439
11,919
48,204
36,904
1
60
2,055
869
3,951
21,109
381
31
315
1,039
574
53,606
12,762
1,066
5,764
23,243
26,975
1
105
33
4
63
1,699
16
1
6
9
12
1,171
15,002
7
6,036
16,124
433
Revenue from royalties actually received on the pelts exported and tanned, as
indicated on the statement of revenue included in this Report amounted to $34,307.15.
This figure does not represent the total amount actually due, for the reason that the
large fur companies operating numerous posts in the extreme northern portion of
the Province, under an agreement with the Department, balance their fur royalty
account at the end of the season, thus certain royalties due on pelts exported and
tanned by these companies during the period under review were not received in the
Department until after the expiration of this particular period.
Based on average prices which it is believed are reasonably accurate and fair.
It has been estimated that for the pelts as shown in column 1 of the above table,
trappers would receive from the sale thereof in all a total sum of $1,024,888.28.
The previous table does not include pelts of silver, black and blue foxes raised
on licensed fur farms, which are exempt from the payment of royalty. According to
the fur records branch, 15,829 such pelts were exported and 1,587 tanned in the
Province, and it has been estimated that in the case of these pelts, the sale of the
same secured in excess of $615,0'00.0'0 for the fur farmers responsible for producing
the same.
FUR FARMING
Details of live animals stocked on licensed fur farms as at January 1st,
together with similar figures for other years are tabulated below.
ANIMALS STOCKED ON LICENSED FUR FARMS
As at January 1st
1935,
1933
1934
1935
Beaver
44
50
559
448
15,938
13
2
6,170
511
1,202
10
16
37
4
60
18
443
360
16,826
10
2
6,190
499
989
2
14
22
78
Fisher
19
Fox (cross)
434
Fox (red )
286
Fox (silver black)
19,314
Fox (blue)
10
Lynx
2
Mink
8,605
Muskrat
447
Raccoon
799
Skunk
Bear
11
Marten
9
Badger
46 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
The number of Fur Farmers' licenses issued during the period was I'OSl,
chiefly comprised of renewals of existing licenses which expired December 31st, 1934.
WOLF BOUNTIES
During the period the Department paid bounty in respect of 1,859 wolves,
which is exactly the same number of pelts upon which bounty was paid during the
preceding fiscal year. The basic rate of bounty was $15.00 for an adult wolf and
$5.00 for a pup. In respect to wolves killed in any County, the bounty is paid by
the County Treasurer and the Government rebates 40% of the amount to the County.
Details of the expenditures incurred in this connection are as follows: —
1,787 adult wolves at $15.00 $26,805.00
X 66 adult wolves at 6.00 396.00
4 pup wolves at 5.00 20.00
X 2 pup wolves at 2.00 4.00
1,859 Amount of bounty $27,225.00
Expenses 102.58
Total Expenditures $27,327.58
X Killed in Counties.
ENFORCEMENT
It was encouraging to observe the improvement which has been evident in this
particular division of our work. The services of the regular staff of Overseers
maintained by the Department to secure observance of the provisions of the Game
and Fisheries Act and Regulations was appreciably augmented by the co-operation
which was provided by members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force, and which
co-operation is now a permanent feature of this branch of our activity. In addition
to this particular improvement, we find an increasing desire on the part of interested
sportsmen, both hunters and anglers, to co-operate with us in assisting our regular
Overseers to maintain a proper degree of respect for our Game and Fisheries
Regulations, even to the extent that in many cases in order to provide themselves
with credentials of authority they accept appointments as Deputy Game Wardens,
acting without renumeration, rendering co-operation, and providing a measure
of service, the value of which, particularly from the moral point of view, it would
be exceedingly diflacult for us to estimate, and it is fitting and proper at this point
in the report that expression should be given to our appreciation of this invaluable
assistance and co-operation.
Records show that during the period under review there were 414 cases of in-
fractions in which the offenders were prosecuted in the courts and in which con-
victions were secured and penalties imposed. In 267 of these cases, the action was
originated by Game and Fisheries Overseers; in 104 by members of the Provincial
Police force; in 13 by Deputy Game Wardens; and in 30 by co-operative action.
Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police acting in conjunction.
In all there was a total of 455 cases in which seizure of goods and equipment
was involved. Here again it is shown that the action was provided by Game and Fish-
eries Overseers in 313 of these cases; by members of the Provincial Police Force in 52
cases; by Deputy Game Wardens in 58 cases; and in the remaining 32 cases by the
co-operative action as previously set forth.
A condensed summary of the articles thus seized shows the following: —
Description Number of
of Articles Seizures
Live Animals 5
Birds, Animals and Game Meat 64
Fire-arms and Ammunition 211
Fish 21
Fishing Equipment (Nets &c.) 69
Miscellaneous Articles 12
Pelts 84
Trapping equipment 61
Water Craft and Motor Cars 11
REPORT FOR FIVE MONTHS ENDING MARCH 31st, 1935 47
While the total of this table would indicate 538 seizures, some of the actual
455 seizure cases would be duplicated in these entries; such as one seizure might
report fire-arms, as well as birds etc.; another, fish and fishing equipment; while
still others would include traps and pelts, and the apparent discrepancy is therefore
accounted for by these various duplicate entries from one seizure report.
EXPERIMENTAL FUR FARM
During the period under review, an investigation was carried out regarding
the digestibility of various cereal foods for foxes. The first problem investigated
was the place of raw and uncooked cereals in the diet. The use of raw cereals
finely ground has been widely advocated from time to time as a time and labour-
saving method. However, the experimental data secured with test foxes receiving
raw ground oatmeal, rice, whole wheat flour and corn meal, revealed quite definitely
that they were not properly digested either singly or in combination with one an-
other. The feces showed considerable quantities of undigested starch, thus demon-
strating that the fox is unable to reduce starch to an assimilable form in the raw
state. On the other hand, when the cereals mentioned above were thoroughly cook-
ed for the period of one hour or so, the foxes were able to digest it very thoroughly.
No raw starch could be demonstrated in the feces of these animals.
Further studies were carried out with the round worm and its relation to patho-
logical conditions which are often found in the lungs of young fox pups from one to
two weeks of age. From the time the egg is swallowed by the fox it is 51 to 52 days
until the female worm reaches naturity and is producing eggs. Once the larvae hatch,
they migrate through the body and cause a serious disturbance in the blood cells.
This disturbance reaches the peak around the 12th day. It has been definitely
established that pups become infected with round larvae previous to birth and
that the pregnant female, if infected with larvae, can pass them to the pups by way
of the blood stream. An examination of many pups which died in early age show
that the small blood vessels of the lungs have been ruptured by the larvae, leading
to serious pneumonia complications and often death. It is obvious that fur farmers,
(once the cold weather has commmenced in the Fall, and which weather conditions
prevents parasitic eggs from developing) should make serious efforts to rid all fe-
males of adult worms by the use of capsules containing worm-destroying properties.
A more detailed account of these experiments has been published in the fur farm-
ing press and the results have also been extended to fur farmers by lectures de-
livered at regional meetings held throughout the Province.
Apart from this work, the customary routine and post mortem examinations of
animals sent from ranches for diagnostic purposes were carried out.
FISH CULTURE BRANCH
(See Pages 11, 12 and 13.)
REPORT OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND FISH CULTURE BRANCH
COLLECTION OF SPAWN
Generally speaking, the spawning season of lake trout, whitefish, and herring
in the Great Lakes falls to some extent within the period of this report. The
spawning season varies according to the species and the geographical, climatic, and
limnobiological conditions existing in the various areas.
It would be out of place to go into a discussion of spawning seasons within the
compass of this report. It is sufficient to say that during the fall spawntaking crews
are organized for the purpose of collecting spawn of the commercial species for our
various hatcheries which are located at strategic points along the Great Lakes'
chain. In addition to the work of the hatchery crews, the Department has received
48 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
excellent co-operation in this respect from the commercial fishermen under the direc-
tion and guidance of the Branch. This team play resulted in a satisfactory produc-
tion of eggs of commercial species and their resultant fry for re-stocking suitable
sections of the Great Lakes and commercially fished inland waters. Lake trout are
sought after by anglers to a considerable extent in the inland waters of the Province;
these waters also receive necessary replenishment from time to time with hatchery
stock.
It should be pointed out that an important principle is involved in the estab-
lishment of hatcheries on the various Great Lakes and connecting waters, namely,
that the eggs collected from such areas are cultured in water of similar composition
to that in which the species cultured live and thrive in a natural state, and in which
the fry artificially cultured will ultimately be planted. Behind the establishment
of district hatcheries there is also the same underlying principle.
The temperature of the water in these commercial fish hatcheries is, general-
ly speaking, the same as the water over the natural spawning grounds where the
young fish are developing from the time the eggs are laid on these grounds in the
fall, during the winter, and until they hatch in early spring. In the hatchery, how-
ever, the eggs are protected from the hazards of a natural environment and are,
therefore, carried over a critical period in the life-history of the fish.
Speckled trout spawn was collected from breeders retained in our breeding ponds
at Dorion, Sault Ste. Marie, and Normandale. Brown trout eggs were collected from
a breeding stock at Mount Pleasant and rainbow trout eggs from a breeding stock
at Normandale.
DISTRIBUTION
Very little distribution is done at this period of the year, but during an ad-
vanced spring the fry of the whitefish and herring, especially the former, hatch
rapidly and must be distributed, since they can be held in the tanks in the hatchery
for a limited period only. The distribution made in accordance with directions is-
sued by the Branch was as follows:
Whitefish
Lake of the Woods 4,0'00,00t) fry
Lake Erie 96,620,000 "
Lake Ontario (proper) 10,000,000 "
Bay of Quinte 20,000,000 "
Total 130,620,000 "
Herring
Lake Erie 100,000 fry
The following distribution of lake trout eyed eggs was carried out on an ex-
change basis:
Federal Hatchery at Banff, Alta lOO.-OOO eyed eggs
Federal Hatchery at Middleton, N. S 1*02,800
Hatchery at French River, U. S. A 700,000 "
Pendleton Oreille Hatchery 1*00, 0*00 "
Hatchery at Colville, Washington 200,000 "
State Fish Hatchery, Canaan, Vermont 209,80*0 "
Government Hill Hatchery, Augusta, Maine . 102,800
State Fish Hatchery, Colebrook, N. H 308,400 "
Monmouth Hatchery, Monmouth, Maine . . . 102,800 " "
Total 1,926,600 "
The arrangement with the Canadian Hatcheries was made through the De-
partment of Fisheries, Ottawa, whereby eyed lake trout eggs were exchanged for
10*0,000 eyed Kamloops trout eggs from Kamloops hatchery, British Columbia.
The exchange with the United States hatcheries was on the basis of an equal quantity
of eyed speckled trout eggs in return for an equal quantity of lake trout eggs.
REPORT FOR FIVE MONTHS ENDING MARCH 31st, 1935
49
In addition to the above, the following distribution of game-fish was made:
Brown Trout
Experimental purposes . 100 yearlings
Rainbow Trout
Experimental purposes 2,000 eggs
Private waters (sale) 3,000 fingerlings
REMOVAL OF NOXIOUS FISH
From January 29, 1935, to March 12, 1935, hoop nets and gill nets were op-
erated in suitable parts of Lake Mindemoya and Lake Manitou, Manitoulin Island,
for the purpose of removing ling during their spawning season. As a result, 2,431
ling were removed from Lake Manitou and 80 from Lake Mindemoya. The average
weight of the ling taken from these lakes was 6 pounds and the total weight of ling
removed was 15,066 pounds.
From December 21, 1934, to January 28, 1935, similar work was conducted
in the following waters in Leeds and Lanark counties with the following results:
No. of Ling
Removed
Average
Weight
Total
Weight
Pike Lake
727
199
334
718
26
415
8
5
8
3
4
5
5,816
Rennet's Lake
995
Christie's Lake
2,672
Ottv Lake
2,154
Otter Lake
1'04
Rideau Lake
2,075
13,816
The removal of ling from these waters is valuable, in view of their known de-
predations on game-fish.
EXPERIMENTAL HATCHERY
In conjunction with the Branch laboratory, facilities were provided for carry-
ing over limited quantities of fish in an experimental hatchery, a miniature of the
standard hatchery provided with standard hatchery equipment. The hatchery was
established for the purpose of continuing studies on the nutritional requirements
of trout, the diseases of fish, and to check various phases of hatchery practice.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In conclusion I desire to express my appreciation of the assistance and sup-
port rendered to the Department during this period. More particularly would I
mention the various Fish and Game Protective Associations and allied organizations
throughout the Province, the officers and members of which have at all times dis-
played keen interest in our work and exhibited a desire to see that the legislation
for the administration of which we are responsible is equally fair to all concerned,
and to this extent have therefore encouraged the Department in its efforts by an im-
partial administration to secure, as far as possible, proper observance of Game and
(fisheries Regulations and thus promote improved conditions in the Province.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries.
Toronto, April 2nd, 1936.
Thirtieth Annual Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1936-1937
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1938
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and PubliBhed by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 3 8
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1937.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries^
Toronto, 1938.
(ii)
THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of
Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in charge.
Department oi Game and Fisheries.
SIR: —
I have the honour to submit to you in this and the following pages the Thirtieth
Annual Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining the activities
of Departmental services for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1937. The various
comparative tables included in this Report, and the appendices thereto will be of
interest when read in conjunction with other portions of the Report as an indication
of the success and progress which has been made in the administration of the
wild life division of the provincial natural resources.
FINANCIAL
At the outset it is perhaps advisable to refer to the financial position of the
Department, and it gives me a great deal of pleasure to present herewith the
statement of revenue produced under this Department during the fiscal year reported
upon, specifying the various sources from which this revenue is secured together
with the sum derived therefrom in each instance.
ORDINARY REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH THIRTY-FIRST,
1937.
GAME —
Royalty $80,830.70
Licenses —
Trapping $28,371.25
Non-resident Hunting 73,937.50
Deer 59,351.25
Moose 2,981.00
Gun 71,526.01
Dog 3,955.30
Fur Dealers 29,737.00
Fur Farmers 7,335.50
Tanners 190.00
Cold Storage 133.00
Hotel and Restaurant 10.00
277,527.81
$358,358.51
FISHERIES —
Royalty 10,526.10
Licenses —
Fishing $100,924.34
Angling 272,690.50
373,614.84
Sales — spawn taking 216.61
384,357.55
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GENERAL —
Tourist Licenses $4,950.00
Guides' Licenses 6,716.00
Fines 11,271.15
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 10,279.12
Rent 3,222.58
Commission 2.113.69
Miscellaneous 949.03
$39,501.57
$782,217.63
The total receipts in the previous year amounted to $683,938.72 and it will
thus be noted that the revenue for 1936-37 shows an improvement of $98,278.91.
Of this increase $83,592.09 is attributable to the enlarged sale of non-resident
angling licenses, while in the game division improvements in some branches were
completely nullified by reason of the fact that revenue from royalties, principally
on the pelts of fur-bearing animals, showed a decline in excess of $30,000.00, and
a large proportion of which decline may be attributed to the entire close season
which prevailed on beaver with the resulting lack of royalty revenue accruing from
pelts of this particular species of fur-bearer. The complete picture, nevertheless,
is a notable one and it might here be stated that the revenue collected this year
has never been excelled in any previous year.
Departmental expenditures totalled $474,128.95, so that our operations for
the year resulted in a surplus of $318,088.68. Principal expenditures were made
on the enforcement service, $188,810.36; fish hatcheries $141,263.55; construction
$27,997.38, work being undertaken at the Trout Rearing Stations at Chatsworth
and North Bay, Ingersoll Ponds, Manitoulin Bass Ponds, Midhurst Ponds, and the
Sarnia and Wiarton Fish Hatcheries; Bird Farms and Experimental Fur Farm
$9,197.15; and Wolf Bounty $33,360.63.
It is generally conceded that the excellent fishing and to a somewhat lesser
degree (which may possibly be attributed to the more vigorous weather conditions
which prevail in the season) the hunting which are available in Ontario to the
visiting sportsman are among the attractions responsible for the current increase
in tourist traffic to the Province, and the importance of this tourist business is quite
obvious. Money spent by our visitors is neither localized nor centralized but accrues
in some measure to the benefit of every man, woman and child in the Province.
Therefore, it is at present, and will continue to be an objective of this Department,
by means of an extensive and intelligent re-stocking programme, and by reasonable
protective measures designed to conserve the supply to perpetuate the resources and
privileges which now encourage non-resident tourists to vacation within our borders.
GAME
The table which follows will show in detail what various hunting licenses,
resident and non-resident, were issued during the year compared with information
of a similar nature covering recent previous years. Noticeable increase will be
observed in the number of non-resident hunting licenses which were issued during
the year when compared with the number issued in 1935-36. This increase resulted
in the collection of additional revenue from this particular branch of our activity
amounting to $20,857.50.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
1933
1934
1935-36
1936-37
Resident Moose
673
12,756
165
5,113
97,561
318
634
512
12,890
175
4,902
76,210
489
475
457
496
14,779
258
5,221
85,884
686
652
680
542
Resident Deer
15,394
Resident Camp (Deer)
262
Resident Farmers' (Deer)
Resident Gun
5,386
79,531
Non-resident small game
Non-resident deer
1,129
848
Non-resident "General"
878
The following pages will contain a summary of conditions as they apply to
both our animal and bird game life, and which information has been compiled
from the reports of these conditions submitted by various members of the field
service staff of the Department stationed throughout the Province: —
DEER: — So far as the northern and northwestern portions of the Province are
concerned reports to the Department indicate that, while the situation there has
many problems peculiar to the area itself, conditions as they existed during the
period under review were quite satisfactory, with some possible improvement and
increase in numbers in certain sections.
In the southwestern part of the lower portion of the Province, some increase
is reported, probably due to the protection which has been afforded to them over
a period of years, and while they are most numerous in the Counties of Simcoe,
Grey, Bruce and Huron, there are evidences that these animals are to be found in
practically every County in the section to which this reference pertains, and in
the not too distant future may possibly reach the point where they may constitute
a source of trouble to farmers and market gardeners. While the conservation
measures now in effect have been provided for the purpose of protection they do not
contemplate the development of our deer resources to such an extremity as is here
indicated. In the central Counties they may be found in fair numbers only in
Peterborough and Victoria, with slight improvement though continued scarcity re-
ported from Halton, Peel, Northumberland and the north part of Ontario Counties.
East of and including Hastings conditions were better, and they are to be found in
numbers providing fairly satisfactory hunting in practically all the areas here in
which an open season prevails. In the section in which the most intensive con-
centration of deer hunters occurs during the regular open season, i.e. Parry Sound,
Muskoka and Haliburton, conditions are reported to be satisfactory and as yet good
hunting is available there.
Undoubtedly the restrictions which apply to deer hunting continue to be neces-
sary and must be observed and regulate the conduct of hunters if we are to preserve
and improve our deer herds throughout the Province, and which condition is essen-
tial in order to guarantee and justify a continuation of the fall hunting season in
which many of the sports loving public are privileged to participate.
In recent seasons we have been seeking the co-operation of deer hunters by
asking them to submit a return to the Department of the result of their hunting
together with comments. In the past the number of hunters making this return
has been disappointing. Seeking an explanation for this apparent indifference
on the part of sportsmen we came across a letter from a hunter which reads
in part; "A lot of the boys won't make this return because they are afraid you
will use the information to send tourists or others to their favourite hunting
grounds. Why don't you tell them the real reason for the return?" The answer
to this query is that it is necessary the Department should know the number of
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
deer of both sexes killed annually, the locations where they are to be found in
largest numbers, and the territories where they are obviously scarce, in order that
suitable regulations for their conservation may be framed. With over twenty
thousand hunters in the bush each fall a means is provided for obtaining reliable
information of our deer herds not otherwise available. A brief reflection will
convince the hunter that this information is wholly in the interest of sport.
MOOSE: — These animals are not at all plentiful in any part of the Province
and little improvement is evident even in the southern part where they have had
the complete protection of an entire close season for the past several years. Reports
from this Section are to the effect that if there be any increase such conditions can
be attributed to any overflow from Algonquin Park. From northern Ontario where
hunting of moose has been permitted in conjunction with the deer season reports
reaching the Department indicate some scarcity and the desirability of the additional
protection of an extended close season in some areas to preserve and thereby provide
for improvement and increase in the numbers of this species.
CARIBOU: — These animals are very scarce and are to be found only in the
extreme north. Herds are reported only in the northern portion of the Cochrane
District and in a few scattered sections of the Thunder Bay and Kenora Districts.
ELK: — The original shipments of these animals to Ontario from Western
Canada were supervised by the Federal National Parks Branch, and on arrival
here were placed in the following Crown Game Preserves, viz; — Pembroke, Burwash,
Chapleau, Nipigon-Onaman and Goulais River-Ranger Lake. Reports indicate there
has been more or less improvement in all instances save possibly among those placed
in the Nipigon-Onaman Preserve. From the herd at Pembroke certain animals
have been distributed to suitable areas in Algonquin Park and on the Bruce Penin-
sula, while a number of Elk on the Burwash Preserve were liberated in that area,
and as far as possible the animals so transferred were set at liberty some con-
siderable distance from farm property. Improvement in numbers has been observed
among the animals transferred to Algonguin Park and the Bruce Peninsula, while
from Pembroke is reported a fair increase, and a fine showing of young animals
from Burwash.
RABBITS: — All varieties were reported to be rather scarce throughout the
northern areas. Reports received from the various portions of southern Ontario re-
veal there is no scarcity of either the cotton-tail rabbit or the European hare (com-
monly called the jack rabbit) in the western Counties, and some satisfactory hunting
was enjoyed here. Conditions, however, were not as favourable as this in the central
Counties, while a noticeable lack of numbers was reported from the east and the
northern districts of Parry Sound, Muskoka and Haliburton.
It is interesting to note from these reports that the jack rabbit is migrating
northwards. Existence of this species in Muskoka has been observed and it is
possible that the pleasure and recreation which the pursuit of this creature of the
wild has provided to sportsmen in the southwestern Counties may soon be available
to the interested hunters farther afield.
PARTRIDGE: — Ruffed grouse are reported to be scarce in practically every
section of the Province though some increase in their numbers was noted in the
eastern portion of northern Ontario, and in some scattered areas in the western
portion of the north.
The sharp-tailed grouse, or prairie chicken, display conditions which are no
better, but pratically similar to those which exist with reference to the ruffed
grouse.
The complete close season which has prevailed on partridge is absolutely
necessary in order that the various species may have an opportunity for re-
plenishment.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
The condition of scarcity existing at this time is one which prevails perodically
and has been the subject of many investigations and reports. Quite recently a
paper dealing with fluctuations in the numbers of ruffed grouse and having special
reference to this condition in Ontario, was prepared by C. H. Douglas Clarke, of the
University of Toronto, Department of Biology. From this report it would appear
that these periods of diminution do not occur simultaneously throughout the country,
and even in this Province there are local differences of at least three years in the
time at which diminution commences. Each period of diminution is preceded by
comparative abundance and followed by comparative scarcity so that the conditions
of the ruffed grouse population over the sixty years for which data are available may
be expressed as a periodic cycle of between nine and ten years.
QUAIL: — These birds occur in only a small portion of the Province. They are
reported to be fairly numerous and their numbers increasing in some Counties in the
southwestern peninsula, notably Essex, Kent, Elgin, Middlesex and Lambton. Reports
of their existence in other portions of southern Ontario do not indicate any improve-
ment, and it is quite probable that there are few, if any, areas outside of the Counties
enumerated in which these birds may be encountered. A few pairs of these birds
were distributed during the year by the Department in the Counties of Essex,
Middlesex and Norfolk.
PHEASANT: — The Department continued its work along the lines of the estab-
ment of this excellent upland game bird in areas suitable to its existence. This
branch of activity included the distribution of eggs and the liberation of live birds
in proper areas, with more concentration and emphasis on the live bird phase of
this activity. Records show that some 1,146 settings of eggs, or 17,190 eggs in
all, were shipped to various applicants. Of these, 6 40 settings were sent to parties
located in southwestern Counties and 280 settings to parties in Counties along the
northern shore of Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrence. The remainder was
practically all distributed in Counties immediately north of these areas.
A total of 2,803 live birds, including a few of the mutant variety, were liberated
in connection with this branch of our re-stocking activities, and of this total 1,401,
or fifty percent, were placed in the southwestern Counties, 9 46 in the southerly
eastern Counties, and the balance in areas immediately adjoining these Counties
to the north.
This distribution of live birds was augmented by reason of certain conditional
loans to breeders under which live birds raised by them to the number of 1,287,
included in the distribution figures above set forth, were made available to the
Department for use in connection with our general programme of re-stocking.
The Department is deeply appreciative of a donation of mutant pheasants re-
ceived from the Ohio State Department of Conservation, and which birds were
liberated on Pelee Island.
It is believed that the value to the farmer of the various species of upland
game bird is becoming more obvious as we learn of the life history and activity
of these birds. They provide the farmer with efficient and effective service as
insect killers and weed destroyers. It is therefore apparent that game birds on the
farm are a real asset, both from the standpoint of service and that of beautifying
the farm. To be effective, however, they must be given consideration with regard
to food and coverage, and in addition to this must be controlled against over-
population consistent with the available supply of food lest they become a pest.
This control is best exercised by legalized and seasonable fall shooting restricted
as to season and bag limits established in accordance with the number of birds
available. This control is a matter for mutual understanding between the sports-
man and the farmer, for the game is the property of neither the farmer nor the
sportsman, but with the proper spirit of co-operation is available with advantage
to both.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
DUCKS: — Reports indicate that these birds provided good sport throughout
the Province, notwithstanding that general conditions which applied to their
propagation throughout the Dominion as a whole resulted in additional restrictions
being imposed by the Federal Government under the Migratory Birds Convention
Act, which is the legislation applicable to these birds, such as a more limited open
season, a reduction in the daily bag limit from 15 birds to 12 birds, and a provision
under which the use of live birds as decoys was prohibited. Conditions were
perhaps somewhat improved as a whole, notwithstanding some reports to the con-
trary from a few sections.
GEESE: — This species provides shooting in only a very few sections of the
Province, particularly in the extreme north, along the James Bay shore, and in
the southwestern Counties, from which areas favourable reports are received. The
Federal restrictions as referred to in the case of ducks were also applicable to geese,
though these regulations as promulgated permitted a limit of catch in the case of
geese of five birds per day and not more than fifty per season.
PLOVER: — This bird continues to be very scarce in every section of the Pro-
vince. But little improvement has been reported and only in a few scattered areas.
SNIPE: — Reports show extreme scarcity of this species in northern Ontario,
though there is some evidence they are more prevalent and show some improve-
ment in the southern end of the Province, and particularly in the eastern portion.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE: — This, of course, is not a native species, but was
Introduced to the Province some years ago, and liberated in various sections with the
idea of providing additional shooting for sportsmen. No active re-stocking was
undertaken by the Department during the year under review, and there is little
evidence of improvement except in scattered areas in some eastern and southwestern
Counties from which reports of increased numbers have been received.
WOODCOCK: — This species is reported to be fairly plentiful in various sections,
particularly in the central and western portions of the southwestern peninsula,
notably Elgin, Essex, Norfolk and Oxford, and in some of the eastern Counties.
Before closing this section of the report reference is made to the fact that regu-
lations were passed which provided special open seasons and established conditions
to govern, as follows: —
(a) Pheasants — Pelee Island, October 22nd, 23rd, 29th and 30th.
Limit of five birds per day.
(b) Pheasants and Quail — Essex, Kent and Middlesex Counties,
October 22nd and 23rd. Limits of catch, two pheasants and
three quail per day.
(c) Pheasants — Lincoln, Welland and Haldimand Counties, Octo-
ber 22nd and 23rd. Limit of two birds per day.
(d) Deer — Carleton County west of the Rideau River, November
5th to 20th. General deer hunting regulations applied.
(e) Deer — Townships of St. Edmunds, Lindsay, Eastnor and Alb-
emarle on the Bruce Peninsula, November 16th to 21st. Gen-
eral deer hunting regulations applied except that the use of
dogs was forbidden.
FUR BEARERS
Conditions as they apply to fur-bearing animals throughout the Province and
as they have been briefly summarized from reports received in the Department are
set forth in the following references: —
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
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m
V
ft
BEAR: — These animals were reported to be quite numerous throughout the
entire northern portion of the Province as well as in the more northerly areas of
southern Ontario, which provided a degree of hunting much appreciated by those
interested in this branch of the sport.
BEAVER: — The sectional close season of previous years was made effective
throughout the entire Province, and the increase in the numbers of these animals
which has been reported from various districts can in all probability be attributed
to this protective action. In practically all areas in which beaver have existed in
the more recent years there has been some improvement in the conditions applicable
to this desirable species of fur-bearing animal and in consequence of the complete
protection which is now being provided this improvement should not only continue
but become more evident.
FISHER: — Existing conditions which apply to this species of valuable fur-
bearer are not at all favourable in any area. These animals are, generally speaking,
very few in number and the sections in which any improvement has been observed
and reported are but few and scattered.
FOX: — ^The several varieties of this species, in the wild, i.e., red, cross and
silver, continue to be generally about the same as in recent years. Quite naturally
conditions vary in the different portions of the Province and while improvement is
noted in some parts this has served only to balance the reduction in their numbers
which has been reported from other areas.
LYNX: — Here, as in the case of the fisher, conditions are not at all favour-
able, though it should be stated in reference to this species that no protection in the
way of a close season is provided, and they may be taken any time during the
period covered by the general trapping season. While some slight improvement is
reported from Northern Ontario, general conditions do indicate that this particular
species is doing no more than maintaining the levels of recent years.
MARTEN: — These animals are practically extinct in the southern portion of
the Province, and they continue to be extremely scarce in northern Ontario, with
some slight improvement being reported from the eastern section thereof.
MINK: — Reports from practically every section of Ontario warrant the as-
sumption that mink are becoming less plentiful. Comparisons show that the catch of
mink taken by licensed trappers again shows a considerable decline during the
season reported upon.
MUSKRAT: — There is no doubt that in many areas which have previously sup-
ported this desirable little fur-bearer, natural conditions are becoming unfavourable.
The fluctuation of water-levels and possible lack of food supply are having an
adverse effect. Conditions may be described as only fair, and throughout the
Province generally show no improvement. There has been a progressive decline
in the number of the annual catch in recent years, as an examination of the sub-
joined comparative table will show.
OTTER: — Conditions here continued to be about the same as in more recent
years. While these animals are still scarce they appear to be holding their own
under the existing regulations which apply, and as a result a special Order was
provided declaring an open season on this species extending from November 1st,
1936, to February 28th, 1937, and which open season, of course, coincided with that
provided in the Game and Fisheries Act in the case of mink and fisher, as well as
fox and marten.
RACCOON: — These animals are found only in Southern Ontario, and general
conditions here are about as usual. While reports from some areas indicate
improvement, this is not generally the case, for in many southwestern counties
their numbers are reported to be somewhat limited and possibly diminishing.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES Nq. 9
SKUNK: — The catch as reported to the Department through the regular
channels shows quite an increase as compared with that of the previous year, and
this pestiferous and objectionable little creature continues to be quite plentiful
throughout the Province. Market prices which have prevailed for their pelts
have not been suflEiciently attractive to encourage any extensive trapping operations in
the case of this particular species.
WEASEL*: — This species continues to be plentiful. While the pelt is of con-
siderably less value than was formerly the case, the catch shows a decided increase
over that of the previous year. Nevertheless a review of reports to the Department
reveals the fact that this condition does not justify the belief that there has been
any great general increase in their numbers throughout the Province.
SQUIRREIi (BIa«k and Grey): — These animals are quite numerous in the
southern Counties and more particularly is this applicable to the western portion.
They were afforded the protection of an entire close season which condition in
all probability contributed in a large extent to the improvement evident in the
numbers of these varieties of the squirrel species.
At this point it is desired to make some general comments on trapping con-
ditions.
So far as Southern Ontario is concerned, except for a few scattered districts,
trapping can no longer be regarded as providing remunerative employment to any
great extent. Fox-hunting as a sport is enjoyed in many sections as is evidenced
by the large number of special permits which are issued for this purpose and while
considerable numbers of skunk and weasel are taken the financial returns received
from the sale of these pelts by the trappers concerned are not at all impressive. The
more valuable, and therefore the more desirable, species are becoming very scarce.
Lynx, marten and fisher are practically non-existent in the south; beaver which ap-
pear to be improving are, of course, provided the protection of a complete close
season throughout the entire Province; while conditions which apply to mink, otter
and raccoon are not at all favourable. Fox, as has been previously stated, are re-
sponsible for some good hunting in addition to the trapping made available by
their numbers, and in some scattered sections fairly good muskrat trapping is still
available if satisfactory weather conditions prevail just previous to and during the
open season.
In Northern Ontario during the year reported upon while conditions were
naturally better than those reported from Southern Ontario, they showed no im-
provement over those which have been in evidence there in the more recent years.
Licensed trappers in this northern section are restricted as to the area in which
they may carry on their trapping operations, each being allotted a specific territory
for his own use. It is anticipated that this system will encourage each individual
trapper to practice conservation and protection in his own territory, as a means
of assisting to perpetuate the various species of fur bearers therein.
The protection which present Regulations provide for the more desirable classes
of fur-bearing animals, particularly along the line of short and restricted open
seasons during which periods only they may be lawfully trapped, is very necessary,
and furthermore the compliance of all concerned with the various Regulations
which govern is not only essential but must be forthcoming, and while the experienced
trapper may not in all instances be favourably disposed to the various restrictions
which now apply to fur-bearing animals and the trapping thereof, full co-operation
with the Department along these lines is absolutely necessary if we are to be expected
to maintain these animals at their present levels, without imppsing further restric-
tions.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of the various
species of fur-bearing animals exported from and dressed within the Province
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
during the year now reported upon and the two years previous, and upon which
royalty was paid as required by provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act: —
1933-34
1935-36
1936-37
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (white)
Fox (not specified)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
2
1
63
521
3
18
73
68
341
,336
,297
,224
,534
280
89
85
,138
,096
,615
,751
,330
,673
,721
,164
5
780,679
411
6,785
2,137
5,424
37,044
500
883
495
2,642
1,282
47,057
398,043
3,701
13,259
50,747
42,643
4
613,057
476
238
2,117
4,156
35,232
360
17
276
2,081
1.464
33.930
370,239
3,779
14,243
87,950
78,643
2
635.203
From information which was secured from reliable sources the Department has
computed the value of these pelts to be some $1,902,407.90, which was practically
the same, (as a matter of fact only four thousand dollars less), as the figure pro-
duced by the catch of the previous year. This figure, of course, is the actual value
of the fur catch to the trapper.
This total does not include the product of licensed fur farms from silver, black
and blue foxes and mink, the pelts of which ranch raised animals are exempt from
the payment of royalty, under the Game and Fisheries Act. It will be of interest
to note that during the year 1936-37 licensed fur farmers marketed 28,619 silver
and black fox pelts, 24,297 exported and 4,322 tanned; and 15,691 mink, 15,623
exported and 5 3 tanned; which pelts together with the few blue fox pelts marketed
have been computed to have realized the total sum of $1,067,848.32 on behalf of our
fur-farmers.
*
FUR FARMING
The propagation of fur bearing animals in captivity on licensed fur farms has
been established and developed as an industry to the stage where in point of values
accruing from the product thereof it is beginning to threaten the production of
fur from our wild life natural resources, and the time is probably not far distant
now when the value of the anual product of our licensed fur farms will exceed
that of the catch of our licensed trappers from the wild. Some native species can
be successfully propagated in captivity, and while the results which have been
evident to date perhaps do not suggest much in the way of economic possibilities,
experiments still continue though undoubtedly not to the same extent as in previous
years. It has been found that other species are not adaptable to domestic propa-
gation with a corresponding absence of satisfactory results. Consequently, for the
present, fur farmers would appear to be devoting the major portion of their efforts
to work with foxes principally silver and black, and to mink, they being the only
species raised in substantial quantities.
While the prices which furs brought in the open market did not offer much
encouragement to prospective fur farmers, faith in the future of the industry
induced some to commence operations, which is apparent from the fact that the
number of fur farms operating under license during the year 1936 increased practi-
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cally nine percent, there being 1,348 licenses issued, while breeding stock figures
show an increase of ten percent in silver foxes, and an increase in excess of twenty-
six percent in mink.
SUMMARY OF BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS
AS AT JANUARY 1ST
1935
1936
1937
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Bear
Marten
78
70
21
19
16
20
434
367
257
286
228
207
19,314
21,645
23,869
10
5
0
2
2
2
8,605
12,332
15,539
447
375
351
799
524
358
0
3
5
11
21
15
9
4
4
Much of the research and experimental work previously performed at the
Provincial Experimental Fur Farm at Kirkfield has been curtailed or discontinued.
All laboratory equipment was transferred to the Ontario Veterinary College, at
Guelph, which is more favourably located, and at which institution facilities have
been made available for such biological and post mortem services as may be re-
quired by the licensed fur farmers.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
During the period under review the work of establishing small game preserves
in Southern Ontario was continued. Through the co-operation of the landowners,
sportsmen and the Protective Associations excellent progress was made in selecting
suitable areas. As a result some twenty-six preserves were set aside in seventeen
different Counties. In addition a preserve of approximately 100,000 acres was
established in the District of Nipissing. This brings the total preserve areas in
the Province to 111 with an area of approximately 6,061,289 acres, or 9,471
square miles.
The Preserves set aside have been properly posted with metal signs and the
publicity given them has resulted in a larger measure of protection from both the
public and the interested landowner. Considerable stocking of ring-necked
pheasants was carried out in these new areas with good results from the standpoint
of propagation.
The following tabulation shows the Preserves added during the year: —
Designation
County
Extent in
Acres
Holmedale . . . .
Paris
Kinloss
West Lome . .
Wyandotte
Ojibway
Sheppards Lake
Keppel
Holland
Brant
Brant
Bruce
Elgin
Essex
Essex
Grey
Grey
Grey
270
860
1,000
3,300
1,017
1,440
200
1,650
845
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 36-37
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Designation
County
Extent in
Acres
Wallaceburg
Brigden
Niagara
Thorndale
W. E. Saunders Sanctuary
Jocko
Varency
Turkey Point
Mud Branch
Cedar Creek
Petawawa Point
Conestogo
Guelph
Humberstone
Willoughby Park
Bertie
Markham
Kent
Lambton
Lincoln
Middlesex
Middlesex
District of Nipissing
Norfolk & Haldimand
Norfolk
Oxford
Oxford
Renfrew-
Wellington
Wellington
Welland
Welland
Welland
York
1,400
5,750
400
850
614
100,000
1,300
1,200
2,000
800
500
1,475
1,000
900
1,200
1,000
2,000
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty statistics
covering the four last fiscal years: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Oct. 31, 19 33.
For year ending Oct. 31, 1934.
For year ending Mar. 31, 1936.
For year ending Mar. 31, 1937 .
1,112
990
1,159
1.090
1,229
812
1,713
1,197
43
57
33
31
2,384
1,859
2,905
2,318
$53,433.88
27,080.65
42,399.89
33,360.63
During the year some 1,699 claims for wolf bounty in respect of 2,347 wolf
pelts, were submitted to the Department for consideration. Fifteen claims, involv-
ing 29 pelts were disallowed for various reasons, including seven in which pelts
proved to be those of dogs, five fox pelts, six unborn pups taken from the carcass
of the mother by the claimant, and five coyotes imported from the Western Provin-
ces, the claimant in this case being prosecuted and convicted. Details as to the
sources of origin of the pelts submitted for bounty are outlined in the succeeding
table —
SUMMARY OF PELTS RECEIVED
I
Adult
Wolves
Pups
District or County
Timber
Brush
Total
Algoma
93
23
2
19
10
0
18
3
0
235
0
2
14
12
166
13
2
1
0
3
0
4
1
276
2
4
0
119
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
9
262
Bruce .
36
Carleton
4
Cochrane
20
Frontenac
10
Haldimand
3
Haliburton
18
Hastings
7
Huron
1
Kenora
512
Lambton
2
Lanark
6
Lennox & Addington
14
Manitoulin
140
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No. 9
SUMMARY OF PELTS— (Continued)
District or County
Muskoka . . .
Middlesex
Nipissing . . .
Norfolk . . . .
Ontario . . . .
Parry Sound
Patricia . . . .
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew . . .
Simcoe
Sudbury . . . .
Thunder Bay
Temiskaming
Victoria . . . .
Welland . . . .
York
Totals
Adult Wolves
Timber
28
0
71
0
1
82
62
3
133
28
6
86
148
12
1
0
0
1,092
Brush
2
2
36
5
0
8
57
0
214
1
3
131
157
4
1
1
1
1,214
Pups
0
0
6
0
0
0
5
0
6
1
0
0
10
0
0
0
0
41
Total
30
2
113
5
1
90
124
3
353
30
9
217
315
16
2
1
1
2,347
It will be noted that the total amount expended was $33,360.63 of which the
sum of $33,287.00 was the amount actually paid to bounty claimants, as shown
by the following statement:
Brush Wolves (Counties)
(Districts)
41
1,156
@ $ 6.00
@ $15.00
@ $ 6.00
@ $15.00
@ $ 2.00
@ $ 5.00
pelts
$ 246.00
$17,340.00
$ 534.00
$15,015.00
$ 2.00
$ 150.00
Total Brush
Timber Wolves (Counties)
(Districts)
1,197
89
1,001
$17,586.00
Total Timber
Pups (Counties)
(Districts)
1,090
1
30
$15,549.00
31
2,318
$ 152.00
Total
$33,287.00
Payment of the full bounty of $15.00 is assumed by the Provincial Treasury
in respect of wolves destroyed in provisional judicial districts, while in the case
of these animals which are destroyed in the southern counties the bounty is
paid by the County Treasurer, forty percent of the amount being assumed by the
Province and subsequently rebated to the Counties.
Trappers and farmers are responsible for eighty percent of the wolf pelts
forwarded for bounty, while an examination of the reports as to the methods which
were adopted for capturing the animals reveals that forty-five percent were snared,
twenty-five percent trapped, and nineteen percent shot, while the authorized use
of poison was responsible for the taking of only two percent.
NEW DEVEIX)PMENTS
MONTHLY BULLETIN
In August, 1936, the first issue of what was proposed to be a regular periodical
bulletin was issued and distributed among provincial newspapers, officers of Game
and Fish Protective Associations and sportsmen who have been sufficiently interested
to ask that their names be included on the mailing list. The Honourable Mr.
Nixon's letter which introduced this publication and which appeared in the first
issue contained the following references viz: —
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ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37 13
"In presenting this, the first of what we hope will be a monthly bulletin, we
have in mind an extension of the publicity work by which we are endeavouring to
make the people of the Province more deeply conscious of the valuable heritage
we posses in our wild life natural resources, and the necessity for conserving these
resources.
"We appreciate the co-operation of the Sportsmen's Associations thoughout
the Province, as well as the individual co-operation of all those who, from an
aesthetic or recreational standpoint, are interested in the wild life.
"With a view to fostering this spirit of co-operation it is our desire to convey
to the public all the information in the possession of the Department concerning
wild life resources of our forests, lakes and streams, and we hope that a wider
knowledge of conditions will result in a keener realization by the individual of his
own responsibility for the protection of these important assets."
Various interesting extracts from the material which was published in the
issues of this publication during the months now being reviewed have been in-
corporated, with advantage, in this particular annual report of Departmental
activities, and indicative of the interesting information which appears in this
Monthly Bulletin is the following extract from the issue of January, 19 37 —
"Non-resident Angling Licenses: The value of the Tourist Industry to the Province
has been emphasized in a previous issue of the Bulletin. Its importance becomes
more and more evident each year as records are made available and data in con-
nection therewith is systematically tabulated. The Department of Game and
Fisheries exacts a license fee from non-residents who desire to fish in the Province.
A tabulation of the licenses issued divulge some very interesting information. Re-
turns show that a total of 48,09 7 non-resident angling licenses were issued during
1936. This total does not by any means represent the number of visitors fishing
within the Province. It is provided by the regulations that 'Children under the
age of twelve years may angle without a license, when accompanied by a member
of his or her family who is in possession of a non-resident angling license.'
Further provision is made for the issuing of a special Family License covering a
husband, his wife and their children not over the age of twenty-one years, at a fee
somewhat higher than that for an individual license. Of the total number of
licenses issued 12,810 were Family Licenses,
"As each licensee furnishes the Department with his name and address it is
possible to compile a distribution of the different States and countries represented
by the license holders. It is interesting to note that every State in the American
Union with the exception of Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming had representatives
fishing in Ontario during the summer of 1936. The nearby States of Ohio, Michigan,
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois sent us thousands of sportsmen, the others
contributed lesser numbers in direct ratio to their geographical locations. The
Provinces of Canada, from British Columbia to Quebec supplied their quotas of
visiting anglers but the Maritimes are not represented. Most interesting of all,
however, is the information that fishing licenses were sold to visitors from such
widely separated parts of the world as England, Java, Porto Rico, Australia, East
Africa, Panama, Hawaii, India and the West Indies."
Owing to the provisions of the Regulations under which non-resident angling
licenses are issued, and more particularly the conditions which govern the use of
these licenses to which previous reference has been made, figures are not available
showing the actual number of non-resident anglers, though it has been estimated
that under the licenses issued during the year a grand total of more than 68,000
non-residents legally enjoyed the recreational advantages of the excellent fishing
which is available in the waters of this Province.
TOURIST OUTFITTERS' CAMP LICENSES:
In accordance with a suggestion which was submitted for the consideration
-of the Fish and Game Committee of the Legislative Assembly by the organized
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tourist outfitters, provision was made for the first time to license tourist outfitters
operating throughout northern Ontario and in those portions of the Districts of
Parry Sound, Nipissing and Haliburton and the County of Renfrew lying north of
the line of the Canadian National Railway from Parry Sound to Pembroke. In all
some four hundred and twenty-seven camps were licensed, eighty-three in the District
of Kenora, twenty-seven in the District of Rainy River, two in the District of Patricia,
nineteen in the District of Thunder Bay, sixty-six in the District of Algoma, thirty-
eight in the District of Sudbury, thirty-two in the District of Manitoulin, seventy-
nine in the District of Nipissing, seventy-four in the District of Parry Sound, and
seven in the County of Renfrew. Of this total three hundred and eighty-eight were
operated by residents of the Province under license issued at a fee of $10.00 each,
while the balance of thirty-nine were operated under license issued to non-residents
at a fee of $25.00 each.
The regulation of these camps will be of a supervisory nature, while a degree '
of protection from undue encroachment will be afforded those who already have
made large investments in the establishment of permanent camps. The licensing
of these camps will also be of much assistance to the Department in the protection
of the fish and game resources, because it places an added responsibility on the
owners to see that law observance is maintained so far as each individual camp is
concerned. As the license is renewable yearly it is obviously in the interest of the
licensee to see that his operations are conducted in such a manner that the best
possible service and accommodation will be afforded the tourist at rates consistent
with the class of service rendered.
From the standpoint of the owner or operator much benefit should accrue.
Embodied in each application for a license is a questionnaire asking for information
in connection with the camp which might be available for the Department to dis-
seminate to tourists. The answers provide information as to the number and kind
of cabins, the various kinds of boats, number of available guides, names of adjacent
lakes and rivers, kind of fishing, adjacent hunting territory, species of game to
be had, nearest Provincial Highway and distance therefrom, nearest railway, and
any other general information the operator may care to supply. This information
when received is not only tabulated for the use of the Department of Game and
Fisheries but is also passed on by us to the Provincial Tourist and Publicity Bureau
which features the tourist advertising work for the Province and responds to
thousands of enquiries yearly for just such information as will now be systematically
available from the camp operators. This service should prove of very great benefit
to those engaged in the operation of tourist camps in that portion of Ontario which
is affected, and the supervision exercised under the license will ensure protection
for the visitor.
AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT:
Amendments enacted by the Legislative Assembly and which became effective
during the year included:
Changes in the regulations which apply to the hunting of deer provided for
an additional division comprising the southern portions of the Districts of Algoma
and Sudbury and the open seasons which would be effective therein, also for a
change in the dates of the open season on Manitoulin Island and made provision
for the use of do/^s in more liberal proportion.
Prohibited the carrying of high-powered rifies during the deer season in areas
inhabited by these animals under the authority of any hunting license except the
one issued for the taking of deer, as well as prohibiting the use of snares in any
part of the Province during the deer season.
Established by legislation different divisions of the Province in respect to the
trapping of muskrats and provided the various open seasons to be applicable therein.
Provided protection for and made unlawful the shooting of ospreys and eagles.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37 15
ft
Changes in the regulations which applied to the open season for migratory-
water fowl, i.e. wild ducks and wild geese, and which changes were practically
nullified by the subsequent regulations provided by the Federal Authorities under
the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations, which last mentioned Regu-
lations definitely apply to such hunting.
And, finally, as set forth under the previous sub-heading, provided for the
licensing of tourist outfitters' camps, and established the license fees therefor.
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE
The Department maintains a regular staff of field officers which numbered
some eighty members during the year 19 36-37, whose duty it is to enforce and
secure proper observance of the various provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act
and Regulations, the Dominion Special Fishery Regulations for the Province of
Ontario and those Provisions of the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regu-
lations which are effective in this Province. The services of this regular Field Staff
are augmented by the assistance and co-operation of members of the Ontario
Provincial Police force and certain seasonal officers whose services are engaged
in connection with the matter of providing adequate patrol service along important
waters during the spring and fall fish spawning periods and during the various
open hunting seasons. The seasonal overseers employed during the 19 36-37 period
numbered eighty-three in all, and were engaged for varying periods of time, fifteen
for general enforcement purposes, seventeen in connection with the open season for
pheasants and other birds, five during the deer season, and forty-six during the
critical spring and fall fish spawning periods.
That interested sportmen are concerned in this branch of activity is noted by
the fact that during this year some 927 offered and were appointed as Deputy Game
and Fisheries Wardens and as such were authorized to assist in the matter of
securing proper observance of the Game and Fisheries Regulations. While there will
probably always be a number of necessary prosecutions it is felt that this, in minor
cases, is not a desirable method of securing observance of the Act. It is believed
that many infractions are the result of thoughtlessness, and a lack of knowledge
concerning the real worth of our wild life heritage.
The activities of the Game Warden are dictated by the necessity for the pro-
tection of our resources and the elimination from our sporting activities of the
elements of unfairness which characterizes infractions of the Regulations. The good
sportsman is always careful to observe the letter and spirit of the law. In doing
so he naturally has to curb his desires and restrict his pleasures. It exasperates
him, therefore, to see others with less pronounced scruples calmly ignoring the
regulations and making light of their actions.
The laws regulate the wise use of available resources, be it game or fish, and
an accumulation of minor infractions may be serious for any species or district.
The Game Warden is invariably courteous in the handling of what is, after all, a
difficult job. He deserves the co-operation of every sportsman and the backing of
every law-abiding citizen.
During 19 36-37 there were 1,448 cases in which offences against the Game
and Fisheries Regulations were committed and in which the offenders concerned
were relieved by various officers of articles of sporting equipment as well as the
unlawful game or fish which may have been in their possession on these particular
occasions. An examination of the reports of these seizures as submitted to the
Department reveals that the action was provided by Game and Fisheries Overseers
in 1,193 cases, by Deputy Game Wardens in 137 cases, by Provincial Police OflScers
in 34 cases, and in 84 cases by co-operative action as between our regular overseers,
deputy game wardens, and police officers.
16 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
A condensed summary of the material thus seized is submitted herewith: —
Live animals in 14 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 177 cases
Fire-arms and ammunition in 491 cases
Fish in 241 cases
Fishing equipment in 309 cases
Angling equipment in 71 cases
Pelts and hides in 197 cases
Traps and equipment in 148 cases
Water craft in 35 cases
Motor vehicles in 11 cases
Poison in 3 cases
Lights (artificial) in 32 cases
Spears .in 47 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 50 cases
Duplicate entries on one report of seizure, such as fire-arms and game; angling
equipment and fish; trapping equipment and pelts, and other combinations of a
similar nature account for the apparent discrepancy in the total shown by the above
table, viz: — 1826, as compared with the actual seizure reports which number 1448.
Departmental records contain evidence of the fact that during the year under
review some 1,154 cases were prosecuted through the courts, and convictions were
registered in 1,092 of these cases, the charges in the remaining 62 cases being dis-
missed by the presiding Magistrates. It will be of interest to set forth the following
details concerning the responsibility for the prosecutions in which convictions were
registered, viz: — Game and Fisheries Overseers in 929 cases, Deputy Game Wardens
in 18 cases. Provincial Police Officers in 76 cases, while co-operative action as among
overseers, deputy game wardens and police was responsible in 69 cases.
While each officer is required to be impartial and efficient in the carrying out
of his duties he is also required to use common sense and courtesy in his treatment
of the public. In this respect we would like to express a word of appreciation by
saying that we believe those virtues are exemplified by the average field officer in
the discharge of his duties. On their behalf and as proof of this, we would like
to quote part of a letter recently received from one of our non-resident hunters.
It is but one of many the Department receives from time to time acknowledging the
courtesy of the average Game and Fisheries Officer.
The letter is dated November 25th, 1936, and is in part as follows:
"I cannot refrain from referring to the marked degree of courtesy experienced
when one has anything to do with Canadian Officials. I would even go so far as to
say that when one gets on this side of the Peace Bridge the change is quite notice-
able. Some distance north of Toronto we were held up by two of your officers
and our game record and licenses examined, as was proper, but all of it was done
with such perfect courtesy that the experience, so far from being unpleasant, strongly
inclined the hunter to co-operate to the fullest possible extent. The fact that a day
before a group of American sportsmen had been caught in a bunch of lies, without
sufficient hunting licenses, and had parts of one deer sewed inside the carcass of
another, indicated that underneath the courtesy there was no lack of efficiency.
"It is no wonder that 99 percent of American sportsmen who go to Canada
feel about it as I do. Out of many years of this sort of thing has come my associ-
ation with Rod and Gun and my sense of gratitude has urged me to write for it
without compensation as some small return for the good times and treatment I
have experienced in Canada."
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ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37 17
THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
For the purpose of assisting in the maintenance of the fish supply, the De-
partment has launched a vigorous and progressive fish cultural programme. The
value and importance of such action is obvious.
Ontario's game-fishing interests are vitally important, and the maintenance
of these interests by protecting the normal fish population and by replenishing this
population by fish cultural means, wherever necessary, is becoming of practical
concern to increasing thousands of our citizens. The healthful and recreational
advantages of game-fishing are of extraordinary importance coupled as they are
with the direct and indirect financial benefits of the tourist trade, which penetrates
almost every branch of industry, thus increasing employment.
The necessity of supplementing the work of nature in maintaining the important
commercial fisheries of the Great Lakes and internationally connecting waters is,
also, of vital importance. The interest shown by the commercial fishermen them-
selves is increasingly evident. By means of their able assistance and the efficient
work of the Department's spawn-taking crews, the egg collection is becoming more
and more successful each year.
This applies equally well to the actual planting or distribution of game-fish
and commercial varieties. Methods of planting are based on the information
available regarding the life-history of the species propagated. Although our
hatchery officers are responsible for this distribution, the assistance rendered in
various ways by commercial fishermen, angling fraternities, and individuals in-
terested in the replenishment of our waters is considerable.
HATCHERIES AND REARING STATIONS
During the year a new trout rearing station was constructed in the District
of Nipissing, approximately twenty miles north-east of North Bay, off the new
Timiskaming highway. This station comprises a hatchery, which will take care of
trout from the egg stage to the advanced fry stage. Five raceways are provided
for taking care of fingerlings and two large ponds for fingerlings and yearlings.
This rearing station will be a most valuable and important asset to this district
from the standpoint of more adequate replenishment of suitable waters. Long
haulage will be avoided and the fish will be planted in the same watershed and
in waters of similar composition to that in which they are reared.
Two additional ponds 50 feet wide by 300 feet long were added to the series
at the Chatsworth Trout Rearing Station. This expansion will give a greater
opportunity to increase production of sizable trout before they are distributed.
Three small ponds, located on the grounds of the Reforesti^^ Station at Mid-
hurst, were renovated and new and more satisfactory outlet dams were constructed.
These ponds are used for wintering trout.
SPECKLED TROUT:
This year the Department adopted a policy of rearing large numbers of trout
to yearling and older stage before distribution to natural and suitable waters. The
results of this plan were eminently satisfactory and more than 563,000 yearlings
and older trout were planted, whereas in the preceding year approximately 35,400
were planted.
In addition to this, 1,053,000 fingerlings were distributed. The entire abandon-
ment of future fry and fingerling distribution is contemplated with the exception
of surplus numbers which it might not be possible to accommodate in our nurseries.
18 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
A small number of eyed eggs were planted on an experimental basis in inaccess-
ible streams in Thunder Bay District and a few eyed eggs were supplied to the
Department of Biology, University of Toronto, for experimental study.
BROWN TROUT:
The Department's plan regarding the re-stocking of streams in southern Ontario
with brown trout was outlined in some detail in the previous report. Since brown
trout are notional in their habits and difficult to catch, they are valuable for re-
stocking suitable waters in thickly populated areas.
Every year more encouraging reports of angling for this species are received
and intensive re-stocking of streams in southern Ontario will undoubtedly give
good results in the near future.
Our fingerling distribution exceeded that of the previous year by approximately
38,000 and this number would have been trebled except that 100,000 fingerlings
were retained over winter for distribution as yearlings the following year. Propa-
gatory work with brown trout will be intensified.
RAINBOW TROUT:
(a) Steelhead —
Practically the same number of steelhead fingerlings were planted this year
as in the one preceding. These were distributed in streams having direct access to
larger streams or lakes, since this species has a strong migratory tendency to leave
smaller streams in which they are planted in their second or third year. Efforts
have been made to establish this species in the lower reaches of trout streams which
are no longer suitable for trout on account of the high water temperature prevailing
in summer. Trout streams tributary to lakes, somewhat land-locked in character,
for example Lake Simcoe, have also been stocked, care being taken to introduce
them to streams where dams or other barriers will not interfere with the annual
migration to suitable spawning grounds. Large streams in Northern Ontario in
which this species has become established are also being stocked.
(b) Fall Spawning Rainbow Trout —
Approximately 3,500 fall-spawning yearlings and older rainbow trout were
distributed to waters suitable for them, that' is the larger, lower reaches of trout
streams. Experience in re-stocking with this strain in waters in the State of
Minnesota has shown that it will thrive in the larger and warmer portions of trout
streams which are no longer suitable throughout their entire courses for speckled
trout and they do not show the same tendency to migrate as the closely related
form, the steelhead.
(c) Kamloops Trout —
A fairly large number of adults of this species have been carried over
successfully in ponds at Normandale. At the moment it is difficult to state how
successful collection of spawn from these breeders will be; this will depend on the
fertility of the sexes.
If this close relative of the rainbow trout, which has been described in previous
reports, can be established in our lakes, it will be quite desirable, since it is an ex-
cellent sporting fish taken on the fly and by trolling. These trout, except during
the hot weather of summer, are usually to be taken near the surface. They show
no tendency to migrate from the lakes in which they are planted. Lakes suitable
for speckled trout supplied with cold spring water from running brooks are con-
sidered suitable for Kamloops trout.
LAND-LOCKED SALMON:
The Department was able to secure only a few eyed eggs of this species during
the preceding year, and the fish cultured therefrom are being retained.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37 19
Some work is being done on a close relative, the Atlantic salmon, to determine
whether it will become established in land-locked bodies of water which are suitable
for lake trout.
LAKE TROUT:
The majority of the lake trout fry were retained to fingerling size for distri-
bution, and as a result the number distributed exceeded that of the previous year
by nearly 3,700,000.
WHITEFISH:
There was an increase of approximately 44.5 per cent over the distribution
of the previous year.
HERRING:
An increase of 28.2 per cent, approximately, in the distribution of herring fry
over that of the previous year was obtained. A greater production of spawn of
the Lake Erie herring or Cisco would undoubtedly assist in the replenishment of
this important species in that body of water.
YELLOW PICKEREL:
There was an increase in the distribution of pickerel fry amounting to 31 per
cent over that of the previous year.
Following previous practice, two million eyed eggs (potential fry) were handled
by the Sparrow Lake Hatchery, the fry therefrom being distributed in suitable areas
in Sparrow Lake.
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS:
There was an increase of approximately 12 per cent in fry distribution as com-
pared with that of the previous year. Although there was a decrease in the number
of fingerlings as a result of a reduction in the yield from IngersoU Pond, there was
a fair increase in the number of adults distributed.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS:
Following the previous year's practice, one pond was operated for large-
mouthed black bass production and although there was a decrease in the number
of fry, there was a substantial increase in the number of fingerlings produced by
this pond, when it is considered that the pond in question is less than one acre in
extent.
YELLOW PERCH:
The yellow perch is among the more important commercial species of fish taken
in Lake Erie. All the perch spawn collected by the commercial fishermen was
cultured in the Kingsville Fish Hatchery and the fry resulting therefrom were
planted in suitable habitats in Lake Erie.
MASKINONGE:
There was a reduction in the total number of maskinonge fry planted as com-
pared with that of the previous year. This was due primarily to reduced collection
of eggs as a result of such unfavourable factors as unsatisfactory weather con-
ditions, paucity of breeding males, resulting to some extent in ineffective fertili-
zation. Among the chief prerequisites to success of maskinonge propagation is to
have a suitable number of males and females spawning simultaneously and a gently
rising temperature. Sharp fluctuations in the temperature of the water are detri-
mental to successful results.
On this Continent unsuccessful attempts have been made to rear lunge to the
fingerling stage in appreciable numbers. According to authentic statistics the record
number of maskinonge fingerlings produced as a result of pond culture by one of
the States of the United States foremost in this field of fish culture was 4,125 in
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1931. These fingerlings measured from 3 to 8 inches in length. During subsequent
years this number has not been approximated and, in fact, none of the States
culturing maskinonge in their hatcheries has since produced in excess of 2,000
maskinonge fingerlings by the pond cultural method.
As a result of a study of this problem in Ontario, it was found that the factors
chiefly responsible for unsuccessful attempts to rear maskinonge in appreciable
numbers were twofold.
1. The difficulty of supplying adequate and suitable food requisites.
2. The problem of cannibalism.
These two factors must be surmounted and the only way in which this can be done
is to study the problem in a practical manner, by experimental rearing in ponds of
the fish themselves and of the forms of life which they require for their sustenance.
SANCTUARIES
In view of the limitations of bass and maskinonge culture and to fulfill the re-
quirements of these important species in our waters, their protection in a natural
state is essential.
From the fisheries standpoint the sanctuary principle consists in having an area
completely removed from public or private use. In view of an ever-increasing
tourist trade, fishing for the species under discussion will become more and more
intensive and, considering the inaccessibility, ease and speed with which our waters
may be fished, it becomes increasingly evident that sanctuaries are necessary. Fish
sanctuaries fulfill three important purposes:
1. They give the fish a chance to grow. Fish do not grow by magic and if we
want larger and better fish, we must give them a chance to grow and repro-
duce normally.
2. Sanctuaries act as bases of supply for replenishing outer or adjacent fishing
waters.
3. They may be very useful for stock and supply.
It is only within comparatively recent years that this fundamental factor in
fisheries' management has been pursued with vigor and during the past few
years the Department has made marked progress along these lines.
With these facts and also the conservational principles already discussed in
mind, the Department's objective is to bring all feasible measures to bear on the
problem of maskinonge and bass maintenance and protection, in order to shorten
any gap between supply and demand.
During the past spring and summer a biological survey of the Kawartha Lakes
was conducted in order to dertemine the most suitable water areas adjacent to
lakes and streams to set aside as sanctuaries for bass and maskinonge. As a resiiU.
the following areas were established on this basis:
(a) In Peterborough County:
Black Duck Lake (Deer Bay), located in the Township of Harvey; Chemong
Lake, that portion located in the Township of Smith, Concession 4, Lots 1-3,
inclusive;
Duck Ponds (Stony Lake) located immediately east of Gilchrist Bay, between
McCracken's Landing and Crow Landing, located in the Township of Dummer;
Katchiwano Lake, that portion located in the vicinity of Lakefield, south of a
line drawn from Haig's Point to Webster's Farm, in the Township of Smith;
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37 21
Little Mud Lake (Chemong Lake) located in the Township of Smith;
Sandy Creek Bay (Buckhorn Lake), located in the Township of Harvey;
Searight's Bay (North River), located in the Township of Belmont;
South Bay (Stony Lake), located in the Township of Dummer;
Taylor's Bay and Munn's Bay (Belmont Lake), located in the Township of
Belmont.
(b) Victoria County:
Chemong Lake, that portion located in the Township of Emily, Concession 4,
Lot 23, and Concession 5, Lots 22 and 23;
Goose Lake, located in the Township of Fenelon;
Goose Lake, located in the Townships of Fenelon and Somerville,
Fishing of any kind is prohibited in these areas, and we believe that they will
act as perennial sources of replenishment for the outer waters. In many of the
closed areas lunge and large-mouthed black bass live and thrive. In some instances
there are mixed environmental conditions, so that small-mouthed black bass is a
frequent inhabitant also.
We propose to follow up the action taken by studying the results of this
closure from time to time. If there are deficiencies in these closed areas, we propose
to remedy these, if possible. For example, conditions in certain areas may be vastly
improved by eliminating useless competitors or enemies? A number of areas show
distinct possibilities for rearing lunge and bass under controlled conditions.
CLOSED WATERS
In addition to the waters closed for purposes of bass and maskinonge propa-
gation, as stated on pages 20 and 21 the following waters were closed for the pro-
tection and natural propagation of the species specified, namely:
(a) For Maskinonge Propagation:
BEAVER CREEK:
Township of Marmora, County of Hastings; from Fidlar's Rapids to the outlet
at Crow River. (This stream was also closed for the propagation of black bass).
BERRY CREEK:
Located on Crown Lands and on Indian Reserve, Territory 32A, before entering
Long Bay of the Lake of the Woods, District of Kenora.
(b) For Speckled Trout Propagation:
BEAVER CREEK:
Township of Barrie, County of Frontenac, and in the Townships of Anglesea
and Kaladar, County of Lennox and Addington.
CHIPPEWA CREEK:
Township of Widdifield, District of Nipissing.
CRAFT'S CREEK:
Townships of Mountjoy, Jessop, and Murphy, District of Timiskaming.
DUCHESNEY CREEK:
Townships of Commanda and Widdifield, District of Nipissing.
ELORA CREEK:
Township of Woolwich, County of Waterloo.
FINN'S CREEK:
Township of Sullivan, County of Grey.
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ERASER CREEK:
Township of Cashel, County of Hastings, and in the Township of Effingham,
County of Lennox and Addington.
LEE'S CREEK:
Township of Keppel, County of Grey.
LITTLE OUSE RIVER:
Township of Dummer, County of Peterborough.
NIGGER CREEK:
Township of Holland, County of Grey.
RAWDON CREEK:
Townships of Huntingdon and Rawdon, County of Hastings.
ST. JACOB'S CREEK:
Township of Waterloo, County of Waterloo.
SARGENT'S LAKE:
Township of Holland, County of Grey.
SPENCER CREEK:
Townships of Beverly and Flamboro, County of Wentworth.
STURGEON RIVER:
Townships of Medonte and Tay, County of Simcoe.
(This stream is also closed for the propagation of rainbow trout).
TRIBUTARIES TO WILLIAMS LAKE:
Township of Holland, County of Grey.
(c) For Aurora Trout Proi)agation :
WHITE PINE LAKE:
Township of Gamble, Timagami Forest Reserve, District of Timiskaming.
WATER LEVELS
In view of the shallowness of the water in which maskinonge, pike, black bass,
sunfish, minnows and other forage fish spawn, appreciable fluctuations in water
levels over such natural spawning areas are detrimental. The Department has
appealed to all those responsible for such operations and the Department of
Railways and Canals, which has jurisdiction over the Trent Valley Canal System,
was supplied with the following data on the waters under their jurisdiction, namely,
the fish frequenting the waters, the spawning dates of the various species, and
the spawning depths. As a result we look for definite improvement along these
lines and information received from our field officers, or those best qualified to
judge, indicate that during the past season considerable improvement was evident
along these lines.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH:
Between December 19, 1936, and January 31, 1937, hoop nets were operated
for the removal of ling from the following waters:
(a) In Leeds County:
Rideau Lake (vicinity of Portland,
Rideau Ferry and Sand Island);
Beverly, Charleston, Crosby, Otter, Sand and Wolf Lakes.
(b) In Lanark County:
Tay River, Otty, and Pike Lakes.
(c) In Frontenac County:
Crow and Bob's Lakes.
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 36-37
23
The total number of ling removed from these waters was 12,315. The average
weight of the ling taken was four pounds; therefore, the total amount of ling
removed was in the neighbourhood of twenty-five tons.
FISH PLANTING SURVEYS
The following fish planting surveys were carried out during the year:
WATERS
COUNTY
TOWNSHIP
Almond Creek
Earnshaw Creek
Ferguson's Pond
(on Earnshaw Cr.)
Grange Hall Creek
Little Otter Creek
Mitchell or Lanner Stream
Crawford Lake
Wye Creek
Echo Lake
Sparrow Lake
Eckert or Manery's Creek.
Leach Creek
Unnamed Creek
(near Courtland)
Five Point Stream
Hodges Mill Pond
McCabe's Creek
Tottle Lake
Deer River
Eels Creek
Mississauga River
Mary Lake
Old Holland River
Pond at Richmond Hill. . .
Elgin
Elgin
Elgin
Elgin
Elgin
Norfolk
Elgin
Halton
Middlesex
Muskoka
Muskoka
Simcoe
Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Peterborough
Peterborough
Peterborough
York
York
York
Bayham
Southwold
Southwold
Malahide
Bayham
Houghton
Bayham
Nassagaweya
Nissouri W.
McLean
Morrison
Matchedash, Orillia
Middleton
Houghton
Middleton
Oxford W.
Oxford E.
Norwich S.
Blenheim
Harvey, Burleigh
Burleigh, Anstruther
Harvey
King
Gwillimbury E.
Vaughan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In conclusion I desire to give expression to my appreciation of the valuable
assistance and co-operation received by the Department from many sources during
the year.
Our work which at times is unquestionably somewhat difficult has been made
the more pleasant and enjoyable by reason of the continued co-operation of interested
individuals and the various Fish and Game Protective Associations throughout the
Province. My contacts with officers and members of many of these organizations
encourages a thought that the work of these Associations has become so well
known and their usefulnes so apparent that there is no question as to the place
they occupy in the sphere of game and fish conservation.
An obvious result of the gathering together of any group or organization of
men to discuss measures for the benefit of all, will be a spread of knowledge re-
sulting in a more enlightened type of citizen, and incidentally a better community
to live in. A Sportsmen's Organization accomplishes these things, and, while it is
concerned with the conservation of fish and game throughout the Province, it is
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primarily interested in seeing that everything possible is done to ensure satisfactory
local conditions.
We believe that the work of the Protective Associations throughout the
Province is of very great value, and are therefore anxious to encourage the organi-
zation and development of these associations wherever possible. The fact of
membership in a Fish and Game Protective Association implies good sportsmanship,
and good sportsmanship is the key to a liberal enjoyment of those healthful pleasures
which are our heritage.
Mention is also made of the fact that generally speaking, members of the
staff, both the inside and the outside service, have conducted themselves and per-
formed the duties assigned to them in the best interests of the Department and its
varied activities.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
Toronto 2, March 9th, 1938.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Agar Lake 15,000
Arran Lake 10,000
Grey:
McNab Lake 20,000
FINGERLINGS
Lanark :
Clayton Lake 1,000
Leeds:
Bass Lake 1,000
Gananoque Lake 138*
Lower Beverley Lake .... 2,000
Sand Lake 1,200
Whitefish Lake 1,000
Norfolk:
Little Lake 560
Parry Sound:
Manitowaba Lake 500
Peterborough:
Rice Lake 1,000
* Adults
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Britain Lake 5,000
Cameron Lake 10,000
Chesley Lake 15,000
Cyprus Lake 10,000
Gould Lake 15,000
Isaac Lake 15,000
Miller Lake 10,000
Sauble River 45,000
Saugeen River 30,000
Shouldice Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Frontenac:
Bass Lake 5,000
Big Clear Lake 5,000
Bobs Lake 10,000
Bull Lake 5,000
Cross Lake 5,000
Crotch Lake 10,000
Crow Lake 5,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
Kashwakamak Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Hinchin-
brooke) 5,000
Horseshoe Lake 5,000
Marble Lake 5,000
Mississagagon Lake 5,000
Rock Lake 5,000
Sharbot Lake 10,000
Grey:
Francis Lake 5,000
Wilcox Lake 7,500
Haldimand:
Grand River 25,000
Haliburton:
Paudash Lake 10,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 5,000
Bass Lake 5,000
Crow Lake and river 5,000
Gunter Lake 5,000
Little Salmon Lake 5,000
Moira Lake 5,000
Moira River 10,000
Oak Hill Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Stoco Lake 10,000
Wadsworth Lake 5,000
West Lake 5,000
Huron:
Bluevale River 15,000
Lanark:
Pagan's Lake 5,000
Otty Lake 5,000
Leeds :
Big Rideau Lake 5,000
Charleston Lake 10,000
Crosby Lake 5,000
Otter Lake 5,000
Sand Lake 5,000
Wolfe Lake 5,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake 5,000
Varty Lake 5,000
Muskoka:
Bass Lake 10,000
Buck Lake 10,000
Dickie Lake 10,000
Duck Lake 10,000
Henshaw Lake 10.000
Lake Rosseau 40,000
MacKay's Lake 15,000
Pine Lake 15,000
Riley Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Sucker Lake 10,000
Three Mile Lake 20,000
Northumberland :
Crow Bay 5,000
Trent River 10,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF nSH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SMAIilv-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Parry Sound:
Bass Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 2,500
Buckhorn Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Deer Lake 5,000
Little Cedar Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 10,000
Otonabee River 5,000
Pigeon Lake 5,000
Quarry Lake 5,000
Rice Lake 5,000
Round Lake 5,000
Sandy Lake 5,000
Prince Edward:
Consecon Lake 5,000
Roblin's Lake 5,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 5,000
Victoria:
Sturgeon Lake 5,000
Waterloo:
Conestoga River 25,000
Grand River 25,000
FINGERLINGS
Carleton:
Ottawa River
Frontenac:
Bear Lake
Canonto Lake
Chippego Lake
Crotch Lake
Desert Lake
Draper Lake
Long Lake (Clarendon).
Long Lake (Portland)..
Loughborough Lake . . . .
Lucky Lake
Mazinaw Lake
Pine Lake
Schooner Lake
Silver Lake
Spectacle Lake
Sydenham Lake
Thirteen Island Lake . . . .
Thirty Island Lake
White Lake
Halton:
Bronte Creek
Oakville Creek
Hastings:
Bow Lake
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1.030
1,000
1,000
1.000
Loon Lake
Kent:
Rondeau Bay
Lanark:
Bartram Lake
Christie Lake
Dalhousie Lake ....
Long Lake
Mississippi Lake . . .
Mississippi River . . .
Pike Lake
Leeds:
Benson Lake
Crow Lake
Gananoque Lake . . .
Newborough Lake . .
Troy Lake
Whitefish Lake ....
Lennox-Addington :
Long Lake
South Beaver Lake . .
White Lake
MUSKOKA:
Lake Joseph
Lake Stewart
Little Sand Lake ...
Long Lake
Muskoka Lake
Nine Mile Lake ....
Norfolk:
Nanticoke Creek . . .
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake
Beaver Lake
Bella Lake
Bells Lake
Bilson Lake
Blackburn Lake . . .
Cecebe Lake
Clear Lake
Cummings Lake ...
Darlington Lake ...
Deer Lake (Lount)
Devolve Lake
Doe Lake
Head of Lake Joseph
Lake of Many Islands
Little Clam Lake. . .
Little Deer Lake. . . .
Magnetawan River .
Manitowaba Lake . . .
Maple Lake
Mary Jane Lake . . .
McGowan Lake ....
Neighick Lake
Pickerel Lake
Portage Lake
Plumtree Lake
1,000
350
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
1.000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1.000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
1.000
1.000
500
1.000
500
500
500
500
500
1.000
500
500
500
1.000
1.000
1,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OP FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SMAIili-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Parry Sound — Cont.
Rainy Lake
Rankin's Lake
Sequin River
Shawanaga Lake
Shebeshekong Lake
Turtle Lake
Whitefish Lake
Whitestone Lake
Renfrew:
Moccasin Lake
White Lake
Russell:
Castor River
ADULTS
Haliburton:
Beach Lake
Black Lake
Brady Lake
Davis Lake
Grace Lake
Gull Lake
Hurricane Lake
Kashagawigamog Lake . .
Saskatchewan Lake
Soyer Lake
Kenora:
Long Lake
Kent:
Rondeau Bay
Leeds:
Beverley Lake
Gananoque Lake
Lennox and Addington:
Weslemkoon Lake
Muskoka:
Deep Bay (Sparrow Lake)
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake
Jackfish Lake
One-sided Lake
Pipestone Lake
Sudbury:
French River
Victoria:
Pigeon Lake
Sturgeon Lake
Wellington:
Reformatory Pond
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
500
300
300
300
300
600
300
300
300
300
300
43
160
115
100
114
150
240
25
200
25
30
300
300
100
NOTE: All adult bass were harvested
from natural waters in the areas or
districts specified, excepting the last
item.
MASKINONGE
FRY
Hastings:
Crow River 10,000
Northumberland :
Crow Bay 5^000
Rice Lake 30,000
Trent River 27,000
Peterborough:
Buckhorn Lake 5,000
Chemong Lake 20,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Deer Bay 10,000
Katchawanooka Lake .... 10,000
Lovesick Lake 10,000
Otonabee River 5,000
Pigeon Lake 25,000
Trent River 10,000
Prince Edward:
Muscote Bay 12,000
Simcoe:
Holland River 25,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 30,000
Pigeon River 30,000
Sturgeon Lake 5,000
PERCH
Essex:
Lake Erie 46,080,000
PICKEREL
Algoma:
Alma Lake 200,000
Bright Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 250,000
Cummings Lake 500,000
Desbarats Lake 500,000
Echo Lake 410,000
Gordon Lake 500,000
Little Bass Lake 500,000
Little Clear Lake 250,000
Long Lake 1,000,000
Mississauga Lake 1,000,000
Rock Lake 500,000
Brant:
Grand River 500,000
Bruce:
Chesley Lake 100,000
Isaac Lake 500,000
Saugeen River 1,500,000
Silver Lake 200,000
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April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
PICKEREL — Continued
Carleton:
Ottawa River 400,000
Rideau River 300,000
Cochrane:
Barber's Bay 250,000
Mortimer Lake 250,000
Reid Lake 250,000
Remi Lake 500,000
Wilson Lake 250,000
Frontenac:
Big Clear Lake 250,000
Bobs Lake 500,000
Bull Lake 250,000
Clear Lake 100,000
Crow Lake 200,000
Devil Lake 100,000
Fourteen Island Lake. . . . 300,000
Green Lake 100,000
Gull Lake 500,000
Horseshoe Lake 100,000
Kashwakamak Lake 500,000
Lake Chippego 200,000
(Little) Mississagagon
Lake 200,000
Long Lake (Hinchin-
brooke) 200,000
Long Lake (Portland)... 500,000
Malcolm Lake 100,000
Marble Lake 200,000
Mississagagon Lake 200,000
Mississippi River 500,000
Rock Lake 300,000
Salmon River 100,000
Sand Lake 500,000
Sharbot Lake 700,000
Silver Lake 100,000
Grenville:
Nation River 100,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 100,000
Haliburton:
Paudash Lake 400,000
Hastings:
Eraser Lake 200,000
Moira Lake 300,000
Moira River 200,000
Soyers Lake 200,000
Stoco Lake 300,000
York River 200,000
Huron:
Fordwich Mill Pond 200,000
Kenora:
Berry Lake 100,000
Big Vermilion Lake 2,500,000
Dogtooth Lake 150,000
Eagle Lake 2,500,000
Granite Lake 100,000
Lake of the Woods 18,200,000
Long Pine Lake 200,000
Lulu Lake 1,000,000
Marchington Lake 2,000,000
Stanzikihimi Lake 2,000,000
Wabigoon Lake 500,000
Lanark:
Bennet's Lake 300,000
Big Rideau Lake 1,300,000
Black Lake 200,000
Christies Lake 200,000
Dalhousie Lake 700,000
Joe's Lake 100,000
Lower Rideau 1,500,000
Mississippi Lake 300,000
Mississippi River 500,000
Patterson's Lake 200,000
Rideau River 500,000
Leeds:
Bass Lake 500,000
Crosby Lake 200,000
Higley Lake 500,000
Opinicon Lake 400,000
Sand Lake 100,000
West Rideau Lake 500,000
Lennox and Addington:
Bass Lake 100,000
Long Lake 400,000
Napanee River 250,000
South Beaver Lake 250,000
White Lake 400,000
Manitoulin:
Kagawong Lake 2,000,000
Lake Mindemoya 1,000,000
Muskoka:
Allan's Lake 100,000
Bins Lake 100,000
Henshaw Lake 100,000
Kahshe Lake 250,000
Lake Muskoka 1,000.000
Lake Rosseau 1,400,000
Long Lake 100,000
Longford Lake. South 400,000
Mootes Lake 100,000
Silver Lake 100,000
Six Mile Lake 500,000
Sparrow Lake 2,000,000
(eggs)
Spence Lake 100,000
Spring Lake 50,000
Sucker Lake 100,000
Three Mile Lake 200,000
Nipissing:
Bruce Lake 100,000
Cache Lake 150,000
Champlain Lake 500,000
Finlayson Lake 100,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
PICKEREL — Continued
Nipissing — Continued
Jumping Caribou Lake . . . 200,000
Lake Nosbonsing 500,000
Lake Talon 250,000
Lake Timagami 1,700,000
Martin Lake 300,000
McPhee Lake 100,000
Red Cedar Lake 300,000
Tilden Lake 100,000
Wasing Lake 300,000
Wickstead Lake 300,000
Wilson Lake 100,000
Northumberland :
Crow Bay 250,000
Mud Lake 250,000
Presqu'ile Bay 500,000
Rice Lake I,2p0.000
Trent River 1,000,000
Oxford:
Lake Lisgar 500,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 1,000,000
Axe Lake 200,000
Barton Lake 100,000
Beaver Lake 100,000
Commanda Lake 200,000
Dobbs Lake 100,000
Doe Lake 300,000
Isabella Lake 200,000
Head of Lake Joseph 500,000
Lake Cecebe 200,000
Lake of Many Islands .... 250,000
Little Deer Lake 250,000
Magnetawan River 250,000
McQuaby's Lake 100,000
Osier's Lake 400,000
Otter Lake 400,000
Pickerel Lake 100,000
Portage Lake 250,000
Restoule Lake 200,000
Sand Lake 100,000
Sequin River 200,000
Shawanaga Lake 250,000
Shebeshekong Lake 100,000
Squaw Lake 200,000
Stanley Lake 100,000
Stormy Lake 100,000
Sucker Lake 250,000
Wah-Wash-Kesh Lake . . . 300,000
Whitstone Lake 200,000
Wolf Lake 100,000
Wolf River 300,000
Wilson Lake 100,000
Peterborough:
Indian River 250,000
Otonabee River and
Little Lake 1,200,000
Quarry Lake 410,000
Rice Lake and Trent River 250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 10,502,000
Consecon Lake 500,000
East Lake 500,000
Rainy River:
Beaverhouse Lake 1,000,000
Clearwater Lake 2,000,000
Off Lake 1,000,000
Quill Lake 2,000,000
Rainy Lake 77,000,000
Windigo Lake 1,000,000
Renfrew:
Blackfish Lake 200,000
Chats Lake 1,000,000
Golden Lake 1,000,000
Madawaska River 1,000,000
Norway Lake 300,000
Ottawa River 200.000
Petawawa River 900,000
Sturgeon Lake 600,000
Russell:
Castor River 100,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 2,500,000
Lake Couchicing 4,000,000
Little Lake 400,000
Matchedash Bay 2,000,000
Nottawasaga River 500,000
Severn River 500,000
Stormont:
Nation River 100,000
St. Lawrence River 2,037,500
Sudbury:
Bear Lake 500,000
Birch Lake 250,000
Lake Penage 3,000,000
Matagamasi Lake 250,000
Onaping Lake 1,000,000
Ox Lake 1,000,000
Ramsay Lake 1,000,000
Trout Lake 250,000
Unnamed Lake 200,000
Wanapitei Lake 1,000,000
Thunder Bay:
Baril Lake 100,000
Cordingley Lake 250,000
Lake of the Flats 100,000
Lake Shebandowan 200,000
Timiskaming:
Hound Chutes 100,000
Lake Timiskaming 500,000
Montreal River 200,000
Net Lake 100,000
Rib Lake 100,000
Round Lake 100,000
Sesekinika Lake 800,000
Trout Lake 100,000
Twin Lake 100,000
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April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
PICKEREL — Continued
Victoria:
Lake Dalrymple 500,000
Mud Turtle Lake 100,000
Round Lake 500,000
Young's Lake 200,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Huron 64,500,000
Georgian Bay 2,000,000
North Channel 4,300,000
Lake Superior 20,150,000
NOTE: Planting for Lake Ontario listed
under Bay of Quinte (Prince Edward
County)
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Brant:
Whiteman's Creek 5,000
Bruce:
Cameron Lake 5,000
Crane Lake 5,000
Crane River 5,000
Cyprus Lake 5,000
Saugeen River 10,000
Vogt's Creek 5,000
Carleton:
Mississippi River 2,000
Durham:
Baxter's Creek 1,500
Elgin:
Little Otter River 5,000
Grey:
Big Head River 10,000
Creamery Creek 2,000
Harrison Park Creek .... 5,000
Potawatami River 12,000
Saugeen River 15,000
Styx River 5,000
Sydenham River 5,000
Weatherspoon Creek 3,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 5,000
Halton:
N. Branch Sixteen Mile
Creek 7,000
Manitoulin:
River Manitou 10,000
Norfolk:
Nanticoke Creek 1,000
Peterborough:
Deer Bay Creek 1,500
Dickson's Creek 1,500
Eel's Creek 1,000
Jack's Creek 1,500
Mississauga River 1,500
Nogies Creek 1,500
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga River 10,000
Demonstration purposes .... 50
YEARLINGS
Brant:
Whiteman's Creek 1,000
Elgin:
Little Otter River 1,000
Grey:
Beaver River (lower
reaches) 1,120
Big Head River 1,125
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga River 3,000
Demonstration purposes ... 45
liAKE TROUT
FRY
Frontenac:
Big Gull Lake 50,000
Buckshot Lake 4,000
Camp Lake 4,000
Canonto Lake 4,000
Crow Lake 15,000
Devil Lake 20,000
Draper Lake 10,000
Long Lake 25,000
Mackie Lake 4,000
Mississagagon Lake 4,000
Palmerston Lake 4,000
Rock Lake 4,000
Thirty Island Lake 55,000
Leeds:
Big Rideau 25,000
Charleston Lake 45,000
Indian Lake 10,000
Otter Lake 15,000
Red Horse Lake 30,000
Lennox-Addington :
Mazinaw Lake 25,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
White Lake 5,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Ontario 1,187,000
Lake Huron and North
Channel 100,000
Lake Superior 2,500,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
31
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
Lake Trout — Continued
EYED EGGS
Exchange 3,200,000
Demonstration purposes .... 9,400
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 20,000
Basswood Lake 25,000
Big Bear Lake 15,000
Chiblow Lake 50,000
Clear Lake (188) 70,000
Gumming Lake 10,000
Deep Lake 10,000
Grey Trout Lake 10,000
Hawk Lake 10,000
Hobon Lake 15,000
Jobammeghia Lake 15,000
Lake Matinenda . . .' 25,000
Lake Tendinenda 25,000
Lake of the Mountains... 10,000
Lonely Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 10,000
Moose Lake 25,000
McCarroU's Lake 10,000
Patten Lake 25,000
Pickerel Lake 10,000
Rainbow Lake 15,000
Raw Hide Lake 30,000
Red Deer Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 25,000
Stuart Lake 25,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) . . . 10,000
Trout Lake (24-R-12) ... 10,000
Upper Island Lake 10,000
Weckstrom's Lake 5,000
Bruce:
Gillies Lake 27,000
Cochrane:
Chapman Lake 10,000
Nellies Lake 10,000
Perry Lake 10,000
Frontenac:
Canonto Lake 4,000
Crotch Lake 4,000
Eagle Lake 4,000
Green Lake 5,000
Grindstone Lake 4,000
Sharbot Lake . 4,000
Haliburton:
Bear Lake (Glamorgan) . . 5,000
Bear Lake (Livingstone) . . 4,000
Beech Lake 5,000
Big Boskung Lake 10,000
Bow Lake 5,000
Clearwater Lake 4,000
Davis Lake 5,000
Drag Lake 10,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
East Lake 4,000
Fletcher Lake 4,000
Gull Lake 15,000
Haliburton Lake 15,000
Hall's Lake 10,000
Hawke Lake 4,000
Hollow Lake 8,000
Horseshoe Lake 5,000
Kashawigamog Lake 10,000
Kimball Lake 4,000
Kushog Lake 10,000
Little Boskung Lake 10,000
Little Hawke Lake 10,000
Maple Lake 5,000
Moose Lake 5,000
Mountain Lake 10,000
McFadden Lake 4,000
Oblong Lake 5,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Paudash Lake 4,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Redstone Lake 10,000
South Bay 5,000
Spruce Lake 4,000
Stormy Lake 5,000
St. Norah's Lake 4,000
Twelve Mile Lake 10,000
White Trout Lake 4,000
Wolf Lake 5,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 80,000
Bass Lake 4,000
Bay Lake 4,000
Big Egan Lake 4,000
Big Salmon Lake 4,000
Clear Lake (Herschel) . . . 60,000
Clear Lake (Lake) 4,000
Eagle Lake 4,000
Jamieson Lake 4,000
Kaminiskeg Lake 25,000
Limestone Lake 2,000
Little Salmon Lake 4,000
Lavelle Lake 4,000
Long Lake (Mayo) 6,000
Quinlan Lake 2,000
Robinson Lake 2,000
Trout Lake (Herschel) .. 60,000
Weslemkoon Lake 4,000
Kenora:
Armstrong Lake 50,000
Big Stone Lake 6,000
Big Vermilion Lake 110,000
Clearwater Bay 125,000
Cul de Sac Lake 50,000
Dogtooth Lake 50,000
Eagle Lake 50,000
Granite Lake 50,000
Silver Lake 50,000
Trout Lake 50,000
Whitefish Bay 75,000
Lanark:
Lower Rideau 30,000
Silver Lake 30,000
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
Lake Trout — Continued
Manitoulin:
Kagawong Lake 25,000
Manitou Lake 2 5,000
Muskoka:
Bass Lake 4,000
Bella Lake 4,000
Benson's Lake 4,000
Big Twin Lake 4,000
Britannia Bay 4,000
Bruce's Lake 4,000
Clear Lake (McLean) .... 4,000
Clear Lake (Ridout) 4,000
Clear Lake (Sinclair).... 4,000
Fairy Lake 8,000
Fox Lake 4,000
Haystack Bay 4,000
Lake of Bays 16,000
Lake Joseph 16,000
Lake Muskoka 18,000
Lake Rosseau 24,000
Little Clear Lake 4,000
Little Twin Lake 4,000
Long Lake 4,000
Loon Lake 4,000
Mary's Lake 4,000
McCrea's Lake 4,000
Peninsula Lake 8,000
Portage Bay and Narrows 4,000
Poverty Lake 4,000
Rebecca Lake 4,000
St. Mary's Lake 4,000
Skeleton Lake 16,000
Sucker Lake 4,000
Ten Mile Lake 4,000
Trout Lake 4,000
Vernon Lake 8,000
Waseosa Lake 4,000
Nipissing:
Buck Lake 5,000
Cameron Lake 10^000
Canoe Lake 8,000
Cross Lake 10,000
Dotty's Lake 4,000
Jumping Caribou Lake . . . 15,000
Lake Timagami 50,000
Martin Lake 15,000
Moore's Lake 10,000
Oxbow Lake 4,000
Red Cedar Lake 15,000
Round Lake 4,000
Smoke Lake 8,000
South Tea Lake 8,000
Sturgeon Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 45,000
Turtle Lake 15,000
Two Rivers Lake 10,000
Whitney Lake 10,000
Wilson Lake 15,000
Parry Sound:
Bay Lake 4,000
Clear Lake (Perry) 4,000
Clear Lake (Humphry) . . 4,000
Eagle Lake 8,000
Eleanor Lake 4,000
Foley Lake 4,000
Head of Lake Joseph 4,000
Horn Lake 8,000
Lorimer Lake 8,000
Otter Lake 8,000
Portage Lake 4,000
Sand Lake 8,000
Star Lake 4,000
Three Legged Lake 8,000
Trout Lake 4,000
Whitefish Lake 4,000
Renfrew:
Bark Lake 25,000
Barry's Bay 10,000
Blackfish Bay 10,000
Carson Lake 10,000
Condon Lake 10,000
Diamond Lake 10,000
Greenan's Lake 5,000
Lake Clear 25,000
Long Lake 25,000
Lower Carson Lake 10,000
Pog Lake . 15,000
Round Lake 10,000
Trout Lake (Griffith) ... 15,000
Trout Lake (Sherwood) . . 10,000
Wadsworth's Lake 20,000
Simcoe:
Lake Simcoe 34,000
Sudbury:
Bell Lake 50,000
Ella Lake 10,000
Lake Penage 25,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 25,000
Ramsay Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 15,000
Wanapitei Lake 25,000
Weiquid Lake 25,000
Windy Lake 25,000
Thunder Bay:
Baril Lake 50,000
Brown Lake 25,000
Jarvis Bay 100,000
Lac Des Mille Lacs 50,000
McKenzie Lake 50,000
Surprise Lake 20.000
Twin Lakes 75,000
Wawon Lake 25,000
Timiskaming:
Larder Lake 25,000
Net Lake 10,000
Rib Lake 15,000
Twin Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 15,000
Watabeag Lake 15,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
Lake Trout — Continued
Victoria:
Birch Bark Lake 5,000
Great Lakes:
Georgian Bay 4,509,000
Lake Huron and North
Channel 6,470,000
Lake Superior 3,765,000
Lake Ontario 45,244
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Chippewa River
Bruce:
Teeswater River
Dufferin:
Lower Nottawasaga River
Elgin:
St. Thomas Reservoir ....
2,000
10,000
10,000
2,000
Grey:
Sheppard's Lake 17,000
Sydenham River 30,000
Norfolk:
Black Creek 10,000
Lynn River 5,000
North Creek 4,000
Young's Creek 5,000
Simcoe:
Brough's Creek 5,000
Sudbury:
Emery Creek 5,000
Sauble River 2,000
York:
Humber River 20,000
Sales 6,000
YEARLINGS
Grey:
Sydenham River 501*
Simcoe:
Brough's Creek 1,740
York:
Humber River 238
Demonstration purposes and
sale 1,028**
^^
^K * Surplus adults.... 9 6
SPECKLED TROUT
FRY
Hastings:
Eraser Creek 25,000
Squire's Creek 25,000
Northumberland:
Black's Creek 25,000
Dawson Creek 40,000
Heffernan's Creek 25,000
Pegman's Creek 25,000
Parry Sound:
Howard Stream 7,000
Prince Edward:
Warings Creek 10,000
EYED EGGS
Thunder Bay:
Bear Lake
Clegg Lake
Fork Lake
Hilma Lake
Himdick Lake
Moose Lake
Pine Lake
Sand Beach Lake
Demonstration purposes .
2,000
5,000
2,000
5,000
2,000
5,000
2,000
2,000
3.600
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Arnill Lake 5,000
Bellevue Creek 5,000
Boundary Lake 1,500
Burnt Island Lake 15,000
Centre Lake 1,500
Franklin Lake 1,500
Havilah Lake 1,500
McKinnon's Creek 1,500
Pine Lake (25-R-ll) 5,000
Tookenay Lake 15,000
Trout Lake Inlet 1,000
Bruce:
Big Bay Swamp Creek . . . 2,000
Colpoy's Creek 2,000
Dickie's Creek 5,000
Foster Moffatt Creek .... 5,000
Judge's Creek 10,000
Sharp's Creek 2,000
Sparrow Creek 1,000
Spring Creek (Carrick) . . 5,000
Cochrane:
Charlebois Lake 1,000
Croft's Creek 1,000
Dalton Lake 1,000
Dandurand Creek 1,000
Fuller's Creek 1,000
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Cochrane — Continued
Grassy River 1,000
Halfway Lake 1,000
Hooker Creek 1,000
Lake of Bays 1.000
Legare Creek 1,000
Mclntyre Lake 1,000
Metagami River 1,000
Munro Lake 1,000
Ramsbottom Creek 1,000
Red Sucker Creek 1,000
Rowley Lake 1,000
Waterhen Creek 1,000
Dufferin:
Cemetery Creek 6,000
Credit River 6,000
Nottawasaga River 7,000
Pine River 8,000
Durham:
Bert Reid Creek 1,000
Brown's Creek 1,000
Carl Billings Creek 1,000
Cedar Springs 1,000
Cedar Spring Creek 1,000
Cowper's Creek 1,000
DeLong's Stream 500
Hale's Creek 1,000
Luxon's Creek . 2,000
Mercer's Creek 1,000
Millson Creek 1,000
Moffatt's Creek 1.000
Patton's Stream 1,000
Rowe's Stream 500
Sowden's Stream 1.000
Sowper's Creek 1.000
Spring Creek 1,000
Thompson's Creek 1,000
Elgin:
Ball Creek 10,000
Venison Creek 10,000
Frontenac:
Grindstone Lake 5,000
Grey:
Beatty River 6,000
Camp Creek 7,500
Deer Creek 6,000
Fairbairn's Creek 5,000
Firth's Creek 5,000
Gravel Pit Creek 5,000
McCartney's Lake 3,000
Mountain Creek 2,000
Mitchell's Creek 1,000
Noble Creek 5,000
Rob Roy Creek 10,000
Tributaries Camp Creek.. 12,500
Tributaries Rocky Saugeen 5,000
Tributaries Big Head River 5,000
Haliburton:
Cardiff Lake 2,500
Cross Lake 10,000
Farquhar Lake 2,500
Otta Creek 5,000
Otter Lake 15,000
Round Lake 5,000
Slipper Lake 5,000
Halton:
Black Creek 8,000
Hastings:
Crooked Lake 10,000
Green's Lake 10,000
Little Mississippi River. . . 5,000
Rawdon Creek 12,000
Trout Creek 5,000
Huron:
Blyth Creek 7,000
Porter's Creek 7,000
St. Helen's Creek 1,000
Lanark:
Clyde River 7,000
Jerry's Creek 3,000
Leeds:
Willies Brook 1,000
Lennox-Addington :
Smiths Lake 5,000
White Lake 10,000
Manitoulin:
Blue Jay Creek 10,000
Hare's Creek 1,000
Muskoka:
Axe Creek 7,000
Fairy Lake 7,000
Gipsy Bells Creek 5,000
Helve Creek 8,000
Lake Waseosa 8,000
Loon Lake 3,000
Menominee Lake 10,000
Spring Creek (Sinclair) . . 2,000
Streams-Rat Lake and
Lake of Bays 1,000
Nipissing:
Brule Creek 2,000
Crooked Lake 3,500
McMaster Lake 3,000
Smoky Creek 4,000
Timagami Lake 3,400
Whitney Lake 1,000
Norfolk:
Nanticoke Creek 8,000
Spooky Hollow Stream ... 750
Northumberland:
Callahan's Creek 3,000
DeLong's Creek 500
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 36-37
35
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Northumberland — Continued
Goodrich Creek 15,000
Taylor's Creek 1,000
Valleau Creek 1,000
Oxford:
Manuel Creek 1,000
Sutherland Pond 2,000
Whiting Creek 3,000
Parry Sound:
Boyne River 10,000
Howard Stream 1,000
Sequin River 5,000
Peel:
Kress Stream 14,000
Stream — East Garafraxa. . 1,000
Renfrew:
Bass Lake 4,000
Black Donald Creek 10,000
Brennan's Creek 4,000
Egan's Lake 10,000
Grant Lake 4,500
Gun Lake 3,000
Gunning Lake 2,000
Heeney's Creek 4,500
Jack's Creek 10,000
Johnson Lake 10,000
Nadeau Creek 10,000
Reserve Lake 10,000
Round Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 10,000
Twin Lakes 10,000
Wylie Creek 10,000
Sudbury:
Anderson Lake 1,000
Johns Creek 7,000
Karl Creek 1,000
McLeod's Creek 5,000
Shenango Creek 1,500
Waddell Lake 1,500
Thunder Bay:
Arnold Creek 5,000
Bender Lake 1,200
Binaback Lake 1,500
Bruce Lake 3,000
Bruley Creek 5,000
Canyon Lake 2,000
Caribou Island Lake 3,000
Cedar Creek 15,000
Center Lake 2,000
Clegg Lake 2,500
Coldwater River 25,000
• Deception Lake 15,000
Dixon Lake 3,000
Fork Lake 2,000
Gold Lake 1,500
Grand Lake 2,000
Grange Lake 2,500
Ham Lake 1,000
Hilmar Lake 2,000
Himdick Lake 3,000
Hymers Lake 2,500
Johnston Lake 2,500
Kowkash River 15,000
Loon Creek 2,000
Mackintosh Lakes 20,000
Mclntyre River 25,000
Neebing River 15,000
Pass Lake 5,000
Pearl River 25,000
Pitch Creek 10,000
Rainbow Lake 2,000
Sandy Beach Lake 2,000
Silver Lake 15,000
Spring Lake 5,000
Squaw Lake 3,000
Sunset Lake 2,000
Upper Pass Lake 5,000
Whitewood Creek 5,000
Wideman Lake 5,000
Wigan Lake 4,600
Wigwam Lake 3,500
Timiskaming:
Crystal Lake 2,000
Fairy Lake 3,000
Jean Baptiste Lake 2,000
Latour Creek 3,000
Loon Creek 1,000
Maiden Creek 1,000
Moffatt Creek 3,000
Moloney Creek 1,000
Pike Creek 2,000
Small Spot Creek 1,000
Spring Creek 2,000
Sesekinika Creek 2,000
Trout Creek 1,600
Wabi Creek 2,000
Watabeag River 2,000
Waterloo:
Flora Stream 5,000
Erbsville Creek 7,000
Groves Creek 1,000
Idyle Wild Stream 5,000
Mannheim Stream 7,000
Welland:
Effingham Stream 9,000
Sulphur Springs 9,000
Wellington:
Beley's Creek 2,000
Bell's Creek 10,000
Bradley Creek 5,000
Erin Mill Pond 6,000
Ospringe Creek 2,500
Saugeen River 6,000
Speed River 5,000
Sales 3,000
YEARLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Creek 3,000
Achigan Lake 2,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Algoma — Continued
Agawa River 4,000
Alva Lake 1,000
Anjigami Creek 2,000
Basswood Lake 1,500
Batchewana River 4,000
Bull Creek 500
Burrough's Lake 500
Caldwell's Lake 500
Camp 8 Creek 1,000
Caribou Lake 3,000
Chippewa River 4,000
Clear Lake Creek 1,000
Clearwater Creek 2,000
Driving Creek 3,000
East Twin Lake 500
Garden River 3,000
Goulais River 3,000
Gravel River 500
Hawk Lake 1,000
Hoath Lake 3,000
Hobon Lake 2,000
Hubert Lake 2,000
Jobammeghia Lake 2,000
Lafoe Creek 500
Long Lake 500
Loon Lake Creek 200
Loon Lake (Deroche) .... 3,000
Loon Lake (Kirkwood) . . . 300
Loon Lake (24-R-13) 2,000
Loonskin Lake 2,000
Lower Island Lake 3,000
McCormick Lake 1,000
McVeigh Lake 1,000
Mashagami Lake 4,000
Michipicoten River 4,000
Mile 58 Lake 1,000
Mississauga River 5,000
Mongoose Lake 2,000
Moose Lake 2,000
Mountain Lake 3,000
Osborne Creek 500
Patten Lake 3,000
Pine Lake (24-R-13) 1,000
Pine Lake (25-R-ll) 1,000
Pinkney Lake 1,000
Rapid River 1,000
Root River 3,000
Sand Lake Creek 2,000
Sand River 1,000
Sharp Sand River 1,500
Silver Creek 3,000
Snowshoe Creek 2,000
Speckled Trout Lake 3,000
Spruce Lake 2,000
Tamarack Lake 500
Tawabinasay Lake 2,000
Tea Lake 2,000
Tendinenda Lake 1,000
Thessalon (Little) River.. 1,000
Triple Lake 500
Trout Lake (62) 2,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) .... 3,000
Twin Lake
Upper Island Lake
Wa Wa Lake
Walker Lake
Wallace Lake
Wartz Lake
Weckstrom's Lake
West Twin Lake
Bruce:
Spring Creek (Amabel) . .
Stoney Creek
Willow Creek
Dufferin:
Huxtable Creek
Durham:
Best Pond
Burk's Pond
Cavan Stream
Elizabethville Creek
Jamieson Pond
Leskard Creek
North Orono Stream
Park Stream
White Pond
Frontenac:
Black Creek
Creek from Mountain Grove
to Clear Lake (Olden) . .
Sharbot Creek
Trout Lake
Grey:
Beatty River
Beaver River
Berkeley Lake
Binns Creek
Boyd's Lake
Caseman's Creek
Christie Creek
Eugenia Lake
Firth's Creek
Glen Creek
Lee's Creek
Miller Creek
Nigger Creek
Rocky River
Sargent's Lake
Styx River
Sydenham River
Williams Lake
Haliburton:
Bear Creek
East River
Hawk River
Hollow River
Little Black River
McCue Creek
Hastings:
Bartlett Creek
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,500
500
2,000
1,500
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
250
500
3,000
1.000
250
700
300
1,000
500
2,400
1,200
3,800
2,400
500
3,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
2,050
1,100
375
500
1,000
500
1,000
2,500
1,000
2,585
1,000
1,500
1,250
1,000
1,250
1,000
1,500
1.000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
37
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to March 31st, 1937 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Hastings — Continued
Brett's Lake 100
Carleton Creek 200
Cedar Creek 2,400
Deer River 400
Echo Lake 1,250
Egan Creek 3,200
Eraser Creek 4,800
Hick's Lake 1,250
Lake St. Peter 2,500
Limestone Lake 1,000
Little Papineau Creek. . . . 2,400
Lott's Pond 1,000
Otter Creek 600
Peel's Lake 500
Rawdon Creek 4,800
Shire Creek 1,600
Springbrook Creek 4,800
Squire's Creek 3,000
Trout Creek 1,050
Walterhouse Creek 1,050
Walterhouse Lake 2,100
Lanark:
Paul's Creek 1,025
Leeds:
Wilton Creek 500
Lennox-Addington :
Ashby Lake 2,400
Beaver Creek 2,400
Enterprise Creek 1,300
Little Spring Creek 2,400
Manitoulin:
Barr's Creek 1,000
Blue Jay Creek 5,000
Minderaoya River 2,000
Srigley Creek 2,000
Muskoka:
Bella Lake 1,250
Big East River 2,500
Breckenridge Lake 2,000
Kay's Creek 300
Lake of Bays 2,000
Little East River 3,000
Muskoka River 1,600
Oxtongue River 1,250
Rebecca Lake 1,250
Skeleton Lake 1,250
Spring Creek (Watt) 100
Nipissing:
Balsam Creek 1,500
Chippewa Creek 2,012
Dorans Creek 1,500
Duschene Creek 1,936
j Little Jocko River 3,000
Northumberland :
Baltimore Creek 3,000
Burnley Creek 1,000
Chidley's Creek 500
Dartford Creek 3,000
Dawson Creek 1,000
Duncan's Creek 1,000
Mill Creek 500
O'Grady's Creek 1,500
Piper's Creek 500
Robin's Creek 500
Sandy Flats Creek 3,000
Woodlands Creek 1,000
Peterborough:
Big Ouse River 1,000
Buchanan's Creek 1,500
Little Ouse River 2,000
Long's Creek 3,000
Plateau Creek 1.500
Simcoe:
Black Creek 10,000
Coldwater River 1,000
Sheldon Creek 3,000
Silver Creek 2,000
Sturgeon River 2,000
Tenth Creek 200
Sudbury:
Anderson Lake 1,000
Bertrand Creek 1,000
Green Lake 1,000
Veuve River 1,500
Thunder Bay:
Ada Lake 500
Allen Lake 3,000
Anderson Creek 2,000
Anna Lake 500
Arnold Creek 2,000
Bat Lake 2,000
Big Mackenzie River 6,000
Birch Lake 2,000
Bruley Creek 7,000
Catharine Lake 2,000
Cedar Creek 4,000
Coldwater River 4,000
Corbett Creek 500
Current River 10,800
Echo Lake 2,000
Elbow Lake 4,000
Golden Gate Lake 500
Gravel Lake 6,000
Gulch Lake 2,000
Hoodoo Creek 1,000
Kaministiquia River 6,000
Kowkash River 1,000
Little Ozone Creek 2,000
Loftquist Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 12,000
Loutit Lake 1,000
Mclntyre River 5,000
Mac's Lake 2,000
Maud Lake 1,000
Mine Lake 500
Neebing River 4,800
Nipigon River 56,800
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1936, to Marcl-; -^i: ''t, 1937 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Thunder Bay — Continued
Oliver Lake
Pearl River
Pickerel Lake
Pitch Creek
Randolph Creek
Rangers Lake
Rocky Shore River . . .
Spectacle Lake
Spring Lake
Squaw Creek
Squaw River
Trout Lake (Gorham)
Trout Lake (Stirling) .
Walker's Lake
Whitewood Creek ....
Wolf River
Wellington:
Erin Pond
Wentworth:
Spencer Creek
Sales
ADULTS
Algoma:
Basswood Lake
Bridgland River ....
Heyden Lake
Lower Island Lake . .
Trout Lake (Aweres)
3,000
5,000
4,000
4,000
1,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
6,000
6,000
1,000
12,000
2,000
2,000
4,000
11,610
1,000
2,500
5,287
400
700
400
400
400
LaK. Simcoe 3,000,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 1,257,000
North Channel 25,510,000
Georgian Bay 74,760,000
Lake Huron 31,990,000
Lake Erie 131,160,000
Lake Ontario 77,100,000
EYED EGGS
Demonstration purposes .
HERRING
112,500
FRY
Frontenac:
White Lake 1,000,000
Leeds:
Charleston Lake 1,000,000
Rideau Lake 3,000,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte
730,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 22,890,000
Lake Ontario 27,500,000
Grey:
Firth's Creek .
Mary's Lake .
Williams Lake
100
230
2,175
Nipissing:
Chippewa and Duschene
Creeks (surplus
breeders)
Norfolk:
Walsingham Pond
Northumberland :
Glenfurnte Stream ....
Sales
55
100
796
325
WHITE FISH
FRY
Kenora:
Lake of the Woods 13,800,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 55,500,000
Rainy River:
Rainy Lake 14,325,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
39
APPENDIX No. 2
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES — 1933 TO 1936, INCLUSIVE
TO
1933
1934
193i
1936
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings and Adults
;56
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings and Adults.
545,000
25,750
3,471
Maskinonge-
Perch — Fry
-Fry
Pickerel — Eyed eggs
Fry
Brown Trout — Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
20,500,000
483,016
674
Lake Trout — Eyed eggs,
Fry
Fingerlings ....
200,000
1,400,000
16,012,700
Landlocked Salmon (Ouanan-
iche) (Yearlings) . . .
35,250
4,250
197
365,500
35,750
420
909,500
95,000,000
5,000,000
278,470,000
138,000
14,500
689
402,000
1,265,000
14,045,450
130,000
2,153
27 =
696,000
153,065
3,433
460,000
53,031,400
2,000,000
229,629,000
109,000
9,650
6*
7,773,034
14,564,000
Rainbow Trout — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
27,016
Kamloops Trout-
Yearlings
-Fingerlings
Speckled Trout — Eyed eggs.
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
506,000
725,000
5,950,255
28,237
1,549
1,000
4,480
312,512
25,014
13,640
134,075
314
85,464
10,796
6,257,267
34,762
1,652
Whitefish — Fry .
Eyed Eggs
372,111,000 I 376,777,000
I
1,645,000
5,013,831
35,421
5,420
296,482,000
Herring — Fry .
Golden Shiners
22,805,000
1
I 17,512,000
7,000
TOTALS
441,325,524 | 796,619,193
43,760,000
500
45,000
8,398
780,000
69,380
5,202
274,000
46,080,000
2,000,000
300,759,500
147,050
7,290
3,209,400
4,165,000
18,253,244
133,000
3,507
28,600
182,000
1,053,050
557,270
6,081
428,402,000
112,500
56,120,000
655,747,231** | 862,401,472
I
* Exhibition fish
* This total does not include a distribution of 132,646,600 fry and eyed eggs during
the five months immediately preceding the said report.
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
No. Tons Value
Gasoline
Launches
No.
Value
Sail and
Row Boats
No. Value
Gill Nets
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Water
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bay
'jake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
544
384
195
497
426
161
876
742
455
204
356
272
435
518
33
978
$ 17,000
54,000
63,000
119.250
147.500
240,200
160
85
43
136
127
57
210
220
20
71,885
39,285
35,575
112,578
80,325
15,050)
171,6701
100,540
4,8251
I
I
3171$ 11,955
110|
1511
222
1571
I
4,495
4,518
4,445
2,165
4,685]
7,3471
7,024
4,871)
I
531,065
856,885
432,375
1,010,750
1,328,800
66,544
85,790
50,275
109,690
168,305
1,829,170] 225,232
1,239,4401 106,631
I
I
4,280
97
I I i
2,763| $640,9501 1,058|
I I i
$631,7331 1,243) $51,505|
I II
7.228,4851 $812,467
I
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
Northern Inland Waters
1,414
2,683,724
569
27,274
170,178
325
78,805
1,332,450
3.823
1,633,840
319.482
260,247
983,783
235,304
1,100
1.767.741
576.196
12.710
277,418
1,596.181
704.657
1.472.586
2.137.519
919,198
5,895
58,051
46,054
777
13,199
1,576
100,632
12,963
1,484,510
83.966
64.214
90.701
275,405
37,934
326,095
North Channel
CJeorgian Bay
Lake St Clair
6.875
6.878,919
18.707
Lake Erie
200
226.549
43.620
Lake Ontario
26.288
4 065
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
4,298,562
5,790,403
6,458,730
1,158,345
6,899.501
2.393,178
Price per pound •••
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
11
Values
$214,928.10
$636,944.33
$710,460.80
$69,500.70
$344,975.05
$263,249.58
ANNUAL REPORT, 1936-37
41
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
Province of Ontario, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1936,
MENT
Seine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
N!ght Lines
Spears
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
Yards
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No. ^, ,
Hooks Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
49
47
113
96
151
136
559
$15,760
12,803
58,790
79.400
88.500
13.225
274,000
, 53
$1,864
. .
1,200$ 167
6 15
143
37
45
55
74
23
91
38
29
$ 30.895
16.875
12,360
15,805
30,400
5,260
87,445
8,475
2.255
116
40
35
67
28
11
75
24
3
$ 13,430
S 229.502
1
12,5051 225,768
...
1
23
1
10
112
20
17,0251 241.553
5
900
695
42
510
'. ',
57,814 10,735
10,236 1.685
4.500 215
3,250 79
4,358 208
7,050 218
29,845
10,980
1,020
29,810
5,355
200
483,065
529.880
39
11.450
13,800
1,550
6,870
6,130
8.215
1,195
5,298
45,585
50
12
736
249
195
15,195
6
26
45
30
112
220
1,044,228
13
244,735
61
206
1.545
26,317
1
168
34,570
$21,533
1.151
$542,478
$
1.092 24.649
1
78
$ 364
$
88,414 13.322
1
231
$1,687
535
$209,770
399
$120,170
$3,070,628
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
64,351
476
10,074
1,601
4,454
6,760
12.486
6.440
226
246,499
104,772
13,675
131,864
423,345
62,595
1 1
1.2501 190.Q95I R78
4.882.948
4.899.391
1.417.018
2.861,728
3,510,447
649.869
11.953.533
3.154.485
925.194
$480,965.35
104.895
299,787
70,990
139,153
209,051
1,201,610
287,196
9.<J8 S-t^l
'
364,122.66
130.898.60
297,187.80
337,598.56
34,848.59
706,376.09
211,814.88
50,935.96
5,688
3,272
115,785
32,501
1,254,087
164,796
10,830
'
56
7
130
217
607
11
11,694
1,399
49,666
70,899
191,556
221,679
21.902
6.998
292.241
360.508
174.908
308.903
53,'7*56
8,024
106,868
61.780
1,586,959 920.155
1
609,488
1.166,710 2,802,028
1.906
34,254,613
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.=
III II
1 $42,747,201 $4,324,601 $ 79,347.95| $55.209.30| $48,759.04
$58,335.50
$84,060,84
$1,906.00
$2,614,748.49
L
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES
OF ONTARIO
Kind
1934
Pounds
1935
Pounds
1936
Pounds
Herring
Whitefish . . . .
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue)
Pickerel (Dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and ^ .>
Caviare
TOTALS .
2,876,121
4,922,996
5,295,174
1,095,911
2,432,093
2,292,094
89,884
63,650
6,018,541
1,105,158
356,665
1,520,848
3,161,229
2,613
2,528.958
5,478,435
6,256,336
1,216,622
5,122,997
2,431,943
110,470
74,947
6,039,713
1,071,004
502,779
1,480,506
2,898,583
2.694
4,298,562
5,790,403
6,458,730
1,158,345
6,899,501
2.393,178
106,868
61,780
1,586,959
920.155
609.488
1.166.710
2.802.028
1.906
I
31,232,977 | 35,215,987
I
34,254,613
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1936
Kind
Quantity
Pounds
Price per
Pound
Estimated
Value
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) .
Pickerel (Dore) .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee 7 .
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS . . .
4,298,
5,790.
6,458.
1,158.
6.899,
2,393,
106,
61,
1,586,
920,
609,
1,166,
2,802,
1,
^62
403
730
345
^01
178
868
780
959
155
488
710
028
9 06
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
214,928.10
636,944.33
710,460.30
69,500.70
344,975.05
263,249.58
42,747.20
4,324.60
79.347.95
55.209.30
48.759.04
58,335.50
84,060.84
1,906.00
I
34,254.613 |
$2,614,748.49
1917
1918
1919
1920
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF FISH TAKEN FROM THE WATERS
OF THE PROVINCE
1917—1936 INCLUSIVE
2.866.424.00
3.175,110.32
2.721,440.24
2.691.093.74
1921 2,656.775.82
1922 2,807.525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926 2.643,686.28
1927 3.229.143.57
1928 3,033,944.42
1929 3,054,282.02
1930 2,539,904.91
1931 2,442,703.55
1932 2,286,573.50
1933 2,186,083.74
1934 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
1936 2.614,748.49
Thirty-First Annual Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1937-1938
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1939
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 3 9
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-first Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 19 38.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries
Toronto, 1939.
(ii)
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of
Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in charge.
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR: —
I have the honour to submit to you in this and the following pages the Thirty-
first Annual Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining the
activities of Departmental services and including statistical and comparative tables
for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 19 38.
INTRODUCTORY
The wild life of the Province of Ontario constitutes a resource of tremendous
importance and value. It is a heritage of the Crown administered by this Department
and the policies which govern the administration of this trust are based on the
premise that every citizen has an equity in these resources.
The natural resources of any country are the basis of its national wealth and in
evaluating the true worth of our wild life natural resources, it is pertinent to point
out that these form a vital part of our economic structure. Analyzing these
thoughts we find the following facts:
The fur trade of Canada is closely associated with the development of the
country, for the trappers and fur buyers were pioneers in opening up the north
and the west. In the Province of Ontario trapping is still more or less extensively
carried on. During the year under review trappers in excess of sixty-five hundred
were licensed and operating in Ontario, while fur dealers' license fees contributed
$27,438.75 to Departmental revenues, which last fact indicates that the trapper is
plentifully supplied with avenues for the disposal of his catch. During the same
period royalty to the amount of $63,632.70 was paid to the Department on furs
while the value to the trapper of his season's fur catch is estimated at $9 66,552.92.
Ih addition to these figures it is pointed out that private fur farmers raised and
disposed of 33,2 35 silver and black fox pelts, 233 cross fox pelts, and 2 4,864 mink
pelts of an estimated value of $896,963.15.
It should be noted that in Northern Ontario where the lands are mostly still in
the Crown, it is the policy to allot a separate area, consisting of a township or
part of a township, to each trapper. While much of the north country is still un-
surveyed it is hoped that in the very near future eighty per cent of the trappers
will have their trap lines on a defined zone. Each trapper will then be responsible
for taking care of the fur-bearing animals in his own area, because his future
earnings will depend on his conservation of the supply within the zone.
The commercial fishing industry of the Province employed some 4,440 men
during the year ending March 31st, 1938, and had approximately $3,277,701
Invested in gear and equipment, while the sum of $2,644,163.49 was derived by these
commercial fishermen from their operations.
(1)
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
From the economic standpoint, however, the greatest worth of our game and
fish resources lies in their attraction to tourists. The seasonal influx of visitors
from all parts of the world has developed into an industry of major importance and
it is estimated that $117,029,099.00 was circulated by tourists in Ontario during
the year under review. This Province has, of course, many attractions, but the
lodestone which exercises the greatest drawing power is the excellent fishing to be
had in our many lakes and streams. It will be apparent that the natural resources
which are the backbone of such an important industry are of very real economic
value.
Again, the importance of bird life as an aid to agriculture is beyond com-
putation. Insect control is essential to crop success. Much of this burden is lifted
from the shoulders of the farmers by the migratory and non-migratory birds which
are a part of our wild life assets.
From the standpoint of the sportsman this wild life heritage has a recreational
value which cannot be measured in terms of dollars and cents. Fishing and hunt-
ing are perhaps the very finest of the health-giving and recreational sports available
to the people of this Province. The incentive which wild life provides for enjoying
the great outdoors is of inestimable value in the development of character and
good citizenship.
It is therefore obvious from the foregoing comments and observations that
our wild life heritage is a trust of great economic and moral worth, and being a
common heritage its preservation and wise use is the care of every resident within
our borders. How this Department has administered this trust on behalf of the
people of this Province during the period under review is detailed in these pages
for the information of all concerned.
FINANCIAL
ORDINARY REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH Slat. 1938.
ORDINARY —
MAIN OFFICE —
GAME —
Licenses —
Trapping $ 29,167.60
Non-resident Hunting 92,370.00
Deer 72,320.10
Moose 3,179.00
Gun 77,780.81
Dog 4,636.10
Fur Dealers 27,438.75
Fur Farmers 8,737.50
Tanners 140.00
Cold Storage 157.00
$ 315,926.86
Royalty 63,632.70
1 379,559.56
FISHERIES —
Licenses —
Fishing $ 103,408.66
Angling 331,430.45
$ 434,839.11
Sales — Spawn taking 72.70
Royalty 10,849.95
$ 445,761.76
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
GENER.
Licenses —
Tourist Outfitters $ 5,790.00
Guides 7,782.00
$ 13.572.00
Fines 11,561.50
Costs 664.62
Sales — Confiscated articles 10,683.74
Rent 3,229.00
Commission 1,959.63
Miscellaneous 231.00
$ 41,901.49
$ 867,222.81
EXPERIMENTAL FUR FARM —
Sales — Pelts 1,258.08
Gross Ordinary Revenue $ 868,480.89
DEDUCT —
Revenue applied in reduction of Expenditures —
Main Office — Costs $ 664.62
Experimental Fur Farm — Sale of Pelts .... 1,258.08
1,922.70
Net Ordinary Revenue $ 866,558.19
Again I am privileged to report an increase in the amount of the total ordinary
revenue which was collected by this department during the year under review. The
total figure of $866,558.19 is the largest yet produced in any one fiscal year, and is
$84,340.56 in excess of the previous high total, viz: — that of $782,217.63 collected
in 1936-37.
This increase is attributable principally to the larger revenue derived from the
sale of non-resident angling and hunting licenses in 1937-38 as compared with the
figures for 1936-37. The sale of such angling licenses in 1936-37 produced
$272,690.50 as compared with a total of $331,430.45 from a similar source in
1937-38, an increase of practically sixty thousand dollars. This is an interesting
and encouraging sign. The tourist is evidently finding out what the resident
fisherman already knows, that as a result of the energetic restocking of the past
few years, Ontario waters keep on improving, despite the intensity with which
they are being fished. The economic possibilities of this seasonal business loom
larger than ever before, and we believe the people of the Province are becoming
increasingly conscious of the necessity for conserving and continually renewing the
fish and game resources which add so much to the attractiveness of this Province
as a vacation resort. From the sale of non-resident hunting licenses in 19 37-38
we derived $18,432.50 in excess of the revenue derived from that source in the
previous fiscal year, so that of the total increase of $84,340.56 to which previous
reference has been made, the sum of $77,172.45 was due to the increased sale of
various non-resident hunting and angling licenses.
Revenue exceeded expenditure, both ordinary and capital, by $302,619.86.
Ordinary expenditures totalled $513,383.80, some of the principal items of this
expenditure being $212,038.54 on the work of enforcing provisions of the Game
and Fisheries Act, and $166,939.91 on Fish Hatchery Service. Other items of
ordinary expenditure include $10,662.43 spent in connection with the propagation of
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
game birds and animals and $4,182.98 at the Experimental Fur Farm at Kirkfield
(Victoria County). Expenditures in connection with the payment of wolf bounties
totalled $27,474.24, while grants to various individuals and organizations amounted
to $8,400.00. The total amount paid out for capital expenditures was $50,554,53,
the greater proportion of which amount was spent on projects which were necessary
in connection with the expansion of our fish culture services. Some of the principal
items were as follows: — Manitoulin Bass Ponds, $12,911.92; North Bay Trout
Rearing Station, $15,811.04; and White Lake (additional ponds), $12,465.33.
GAME
The comparative table which follows will show in detail the various hunting
licenses, both resident and non-resident, which were issued during the year under
review, and such figures for the three previous years. While reference has already
been made to the increased revenue derived in 1937-38 from the sale of non-resident
hunting licenses, it will be of interest to state that the revenue derived from the
Bale of resident hunting licenses — deer, moose and gun, — in 1937-38 was in excess
of that collected from the same sources in the previous year by the sum of $19,419.65.
1934
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
Resident Moose
512
12,890
175
4,902
76,210
489
475
457
496
14,779
258
5,221
85,884
686
652
680
542
15,394
262
5,386
79,531
1,129
848
878
580
Resident Deer
18,672
283
Resident Deer (Camp)
Resident Deer (Farmers)
Resident Gun
6,503
90,756
Non-resident Small Game
Non-resident Deer
1,634
1,036
1.043
Non-resident "General"
The sportsman to-day is not so much interested in the kill as in the chase,
although his pleasure is increased when his efforts are rewarded. Meat, however,
is not the primary consideration. Health and "the pursuit of happiness" are the
lures which beckon the good sportsman from the artificialities of life to the soothing
influence and restful atmosphere of nature. Wild life is but a means to an end,
an incentive to physical and mental relaxation.
The following pages contain a summary of conditions as they apply to the
game life of the province. — both animal and bird, and which information is com-
piled from reports submitted by the various members of the field service staff of
the Department: —
DEER: — This particularly fine species of game animal continues to be fairly
plentiful in various sections of the Province and while the hunting of these animals
during the regular open season supplies an exhilarating brand of recreation for the
interested sportsman there is no doubt, notwithstanding the fact that there was
provision for some minor moderation of the regulations which had previously applied
to restrict the taking of does and fawns, that the preservation and possible improve-
ment of the existing deer herds depends very largely upon the protection which the
existing provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act provide and the observance of
such restrictions by all concerned.
Reports submitted by members of the Field Service staff indicate that so far
as the northern and northwestern portions of the Province are concerned generally
speaking conditions are quite favourable, though there are various scattered sections
throughout this region where such is not the case. The northern districts in the
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
southern portion of the Province continue to attract the majority of hunters seeking
deer, and it would appear that these animals are still sufficiently plentiful and
showing some increase in numbers in some sections of these areas, i.e. Parry Sound,
Muskoka, Haliburton, Renfrew and the northern portions of Victoria, Peterborough,
Hastings, Addington, Frontenac and Lanark, to warrant the belief that this branch of
sporting activity will long be available here. In the Counties included in the
southwestern peninsula and in certain eastern counties there has been an entire
close season on deer for the past several years, and even though these particular
counties represent the most settled portions of the entire Province we are able to
state that the complete protection which prevails here is resulting in the number of
deer increasing in most of these counties. This has been particularly the case in
the counties of Bruce and Grey where conditions have been so favourable as to
warrant the Department providing a short open season there.
The open season for deer during the year reported on was a highly successful
one. Reports to the Department from sportsmen and overseers indicated that as
a general rule deer were more numerous in certain sections than was the case in the
previous season. While this may in some measure be attributable to a natural move-
ment of the herd, it is reasonable to assume that the comparatively mild winters of
the past two years, together with the protective measures in force have resulted in
increased reproduction. We are referring, of course, to those areas in which hunting
was legal. The Department's Inspector, who was stationed at a strategic point on the
highway to check hunters on their return from the north, reported that the con-
sensus of opinion was that there were more deer seen than ever before. A Deputy
Game Warden with whom we were discussing the hunt said, — "I have been hunting
deer for seventeen years and never saw them so thick as they were this year," Such
reports are encouraging, indicating as they do that the deer herd, with a reasonable
measure of protection, is capable of replenishing itself despite natural and unnatural
enemies.
MOOSE: — This splendid monarch of the Ontario forest is to be found only
in the northern portion of the Province though scattered specimens are to be found
in Muskoka, Parry Sound, Renfrew and in the sections immediately to the south of
Algonquin Provincial Park. Nowhere in Ontario are they plentiful and there is no
douDt that the various regulations which exist for the protection of these magnificent
animals are absolutely necessary for the welfare of this species. It is only
in a few sections that their numbers are reported to be even fairly plentiful, and
nowhere has any decided improvement in numbers been observed.
CARIBOU: — These animals are extremely scarce and are reported only from the
Districts of Rainy River, Kenora and Thunder Bay, also from the northern portions
of Algoma and Cochrane. Some slight increase has been observed in the eastern
portion of Thunder Bay and in the Chapleau Game Preserve, which is located in the
Districts of Sudbury and Algoma.
EliK: — As has been outlined in previous reports the elk which are to be
found in Ontario at present are those which were imported to the Province from
Western Canada, and their progeny. The original shipments were made with the
approval and co-operation of the Dominion National Parks Branch, and on arrival
here were placed on the following Crown Game Preserves, viz: — Pembroke, Burwash,
Chapleau, Nipigon-Onaman and Goulais River-Ranger Lake.
There has been some improvement in practically all instances save one, —
those liberated on the Nipigon-Onaman Crown Game Preserve. Elk from the herd at
Pembroke have been placed in Algonquin Park and on the Bruce Peninsula, while
some animals from the herd at Burwash were liberated in territory immediately
adjacent thereto. It is reported that their numbers have increased in the Chapleau
and Burwash Game Preserves and also on the Bruce Peninsula, while some of these
animals have been observed on Beausoleil Island in Georgian Bay off Simcoe County.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
BEAR: — These animals are both hunted and trapped but not verj' extensively,
though there is an indication that increasing numbers of non-resident hunters are
becoming interested in the spring hunt which has been provided during the months
of April and May. They are available in varying numbers throughout the entire
northern portion of the Province and are reported to be quite plentiful in many
sections, and to a lesser extent in Parry Sound, Muskoka, Haliburton, Renfrew and
the northern part of Hastings County.
RABBITS: — Rabbits continue to provide many opportunities which are favour-
able from the sportsman's point of view, and more particularly is this so in the
southern counties. In this section of the Province cotton-tail rabbits are available
in satisfactory numbers, while the jack rabbit (European Hare) is pretty well
confined to the western counties though this species is slowly extending its numbers
to the east and north. In northern Ontario snow shoe rabbits are the prevailing
species and although they are reported to be quite scarce there are indications of
improvement in some districts.
Rabbit hunting is a favourable activity of Ontario sportsmen during the
fall and winter months. The "jack" is probably the most popular of the species
because of its size and the open country it inhabits. Its long and powerful legs
propel it at tremendous speed and the difficulty of hitting such a fast moving target
intensifies the pleasure of the hunt. The "jack" does not readily capitulate. It has
power and stamina which provide an excellent defense against all but the most
experienced. The varying hare or snowshoe rabbit on the other hand has quite a
burst of speed, but lacks the reserve power and physical courage of the "jack".
It succumbs readily.
The cotton tail and the hare are in about the same class from the sporting
standpoint, although the former provides a measure of additional sport to those who
enjoy hunting with ferrets.
Hunters should realize that there is just as much danger of exterminating
the rabbit through needless waste as any other species of game. This is particularly
true in the more populous areas, where hunting is heavy and habitat restricted. Game
which provides such healthy outdoor recreation at a minimum of expense is worth
conserving.
SQUIRREL (Black and Grey): — These animals are quite numerous in the
southern counties and particularly is this applicable to the western portion. They
were afforded the protection of an entire close season which in all probability con-
tributed largely to the improvement evident in the numbers of these varieties of
squirrel.
PARTRIDGE: — Conditions as they applied to the various species of this
desirable game bird were not sufficiently favourable to justify any action along
the lines of an open season.
The sharp-tailed grouse or prairie chicken is found only in the northwestern
districts and while scarce they showed signs of some increase.
As far as ruffed grouse are concerned, these birds exist throughout the
Province, though their numbers are, of course, quite limited in the more settled
sections. However, as previously stated in no section were they in any way numerous
though reports received by the Department advised that improvement was noticeable
principally in Northern Ontario and the northern districts and eastern counties of
the southern part of the Province.
QUAIL: — These birds are found principally in the counties of Essex, Kent,
Lambton and Middlesex, and in counties immediately adjacent to the eastern
boundaries thereof, and in which section they are fairly plentiful. Scattered bevies
of quail are reported also in some eastern counties, that is Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry.
ANNUAI^ REPORT, 1937-38
PHEASANT: — During the year reported upon the Department intensified its
pheasant re-stocking activities insofar as they applied to live birds, with the
result that the distribution of eggs was to that extent curtailed. Departmental
records reveal the fact that only 303 settings, or 4,545 eggs, were distributed to
interested applicants, while live pheasants numbering 5,076 in all were liberated
in suitable areas, 4,703 of which birds were placed in various Regulated Game Pre-
serve areas, a scheme of protected areas inaugurated during the year, and to which
scheme detailed reference is made later on in this Report.
The following references concerning the earlier efforts in connection with
the re-stocking of pheasants will probably be of sufficient interest to warrant
inclusion in this Report.
It seems rather a hopeless task to definitely determine the time and circum-
stances when the English ring-necked pheasant was first introduced into this
Province. The only official record to be found is in the published reports for the
Department. It is strange that while reference is made in some of them to con-
ditions, no information is included as to when they were planted or by whom. The
first reference found is in a report of the Ontario Game and Fish Commissioners for
1895, and concerns Mongolian and English pheasants, viz:^ —
"There is an increasing feeling among sportsmen that further and greater
efforts must be made in the near future looking towards the restocking of game
covers, and quail seems to be the only bird which offers a fair compensation for
the outlay of time and money. As is well known, none of the other native birds
admit of propagation so that restocking with them is out of the question. Some
ardent sportsmen have introduced the Mongolian pheasant and also the English
pheasant but sufficient time has not yet elapsed in which to test the success of
the experiment."
The report of the same organization for 1896 mentions the fact that a number
of English pheasants, about 120, were reared at Rondeau during the year.
And again in 1901: — "It has been suggested in consequence of the English
pheasants that have been liberated on Point Pelee having done so well, that the
Point should be made a preserve and no shooting or hunting at any time be allowed
on the Point."
Finally.-^reference is made to an open season, and the following is quoted
from the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission (Special Committee) Final Report,
1910, — "The open season for pheasants which was declared during the past year,
resulted apparently in the satisfactory discovery that the birds were more plentiful
than had been supposed, and most excellent sport would appear to have been
enjoyed. Sufficient time, however, has not yet elapsed to enable a determination
to be arrived at in regard to the advisability of repeating the experiment of an
open season during 1911. Careful investigation should be made at this point by the
proper authorities, for the pheasants in some localities have become so well acclima-
tized and are thriving to such an extent that it would be a grievous mistake to
allow their numbers to become unduly diminished."
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE: — These birds are not very plentiful anywhere in
the Province. So far as the north is concerned their numbers are negligible though
evidence of their existence is reported from certain sections of Thunder Bay, Algoma
and Temiskaming. They are most numerous in the very extreme southwestern
counties, while reports indicate they are becoming more plentiful in some of the
eastern counties. During the year 102 of these birds were distributed by the
Department in selected areas.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
DUCKS: — Generally speaking this species of migratory waterfowl provides
quite a large proportion of the sport which is available to the hunter during any
season, and the present restrictions which apply for their protection are providing
a measure of conservation which will undoubtedly be beneficial and result in main-
taining the supply for the enjoyment of sportsmen in future years. Reports from
practically every section of the Province are quite favourable, though there are
some areas in the north in which conditions are not too good.
GEESE: — There are not many areas in Ontario in which these birds may be
successfully hunted, and while they are observed in flight during the fall and spring
migrations in numerous sections the conditions which prevail during these migrations
are such that during the open season which is provided any hunting which is
available is pretty well restricted to the James Bay shore in the far north, and to a
few of the extreme southwestern counties.
WOODCOCK: — This species is extremely scarce in Northern Ontario, and is
none too plentiful in the southern portion of the Province. From reports to the
Department it is apparent that most favourable locations are in some of the counties
along the north shore of Lake Erie.
SNIPE: — As in the case of the woodcock, snipe are extremely scarce in the
northern districts. They are reported to be somewhat plentiful in a number of the
eastern counties, and while some improvement was observed in scattered areas
throughout the southern counties as a general rule their numbers are sufl&cient to
provide nothing more than fair shooting.
PLOVER: — Continues to be very scarce in practically every section of the
Province, and no improvement indicated by reports.
During the year under review Regulations were approved which provided for
special open seasons, details of which are as follows: —
(a) Deer in that portion of Carleton County lying west of the
Rideau River, — from November 5th to 20th, inclusive. General
deer hunting regulations applied.
(b) Deer in the counties of Bruce and Grey, — from November 8th
to 13th, inclusive. General deer hunting regulations applied
except that the use of dogs was not permitted.
(c) Pheasants — Pelee Island, October 28th and 29th. Five birds
per day. Special municipal license $3.
(d) Pheasants, quail and Hungarian Partridge, — The counties of
Essex and Kent, October 28th and 29th. Three pheasants,
three quail and two Hungarian Partridge per day.
(e) Pheasants, — in the following Townships, which were establish-
ed as Regulated Game Preserve Areas, viz: — Markham, Nel-
son, Trafalgar, Flamborough, E., Beverley, Ancaster, Saltfleet,
Binbrook, Barton, Humberstone, Canborough, Dunn, Cayuga
North, Cayuga South, Oneida and Seneca, October 28th and
29th. Three birds per day. Special municipal license $1.
per day.
(f ) Pheasants, — in the following Townships, which were establish-
ed as Regulated Game Preserve Areas, viz: — Grimsby North,
Clinton, Louth, Grantham, Niagara, Caistor, Willoughby and
Bertie, October 28th. Three birds per day. Special municipal
license $1.00.
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FUR BEARERS
Conditions as they apply to fur bearing animals throughout the Province
are set forth in the following references, as summarized from reports of the Field
Service staff to the Department: —
BEAVER: — These animals had the protection of an entire close season, though
it was found necessary to open the season on Manitoulin Island for the first fifteen
days of November. Trapping of these animals under the regulations which prevailed
restricted such operations to trappers and farmers actually resident on Manitoulin,
limited the catch of each person to not more than ten beaver, and required that
pelts so taken be disposed of under supervision of the Department. The close
season which has been in effect has resulted in a noticeable increase in the numbers
of these animals practically throughout the entire Province.
FISHER: — This species is extremely scarce throughout the Province and few
if any are taken anywhere south of the French and Mattawa Rivers.
FOX: — Conditions remained pretty much the same in the various sections in
which these animals have been found, with improvement and decreasing numbers
reported from different districts. There was unquestionably no general increase,
which would appear to be supported by the fact that there was quite a noticeable
decrease in the numbers of the various species of fox taken during the season. Silver
fox now are very seldom taken in the wild.
LYNX: — This species also is extremely scarce everywhere in the Province,
and while the pelt is one of the most valuable of those taken in the wild the trapper
does not derive much of his revenue therefrom.
MARTEN: — Very scarce, and while there was an increase in the number of
pelts taken during the season, such increase should not be regarded as an indication
of any permanent or general improvement.
MINK: — There would appear to be no doubt that this species is becoming
less numerous in many areas. There were few sections in which conditions were
favourable or any improvement observed.
MUSKRAT: — Conditions in Northern Ontario particularly were not at all good,
and while there were some sections in Southern Ontario from which favourable
reports were received, generally speaking conditions here were only comparatively
fair. The decline in the annual catch which has now been progressing over a number
of years continued during the season reported upon.
OTTER: — These animals are to be found chiefly in Northern Ontario, and even
there they are not particularly numerous. Conditions remained about the same
as is indicated by the annual take. While continuing scarce some improvement was
reported in scattered areas.
RACCOON: — This species does not inhabit the north. General conditions in
southern Ontario remained about the same. They are not plentiful anywhere, and
reports indicate that generally speaking their numbers are possibly decreasing to
some extent.
SKUNK: — While these animals were reported to be very plentiful throughout
the entire Province there was quite an extensive decrease in the number taken by-
trappers during the season.
WEASEL: — This species continues to be very plentiful in every portion of
the Province, with the possible exception of certain counties in the southwestern
peninsula. The catch was about the same as in the previous year.
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
There can be no question as to the necessity of the present restrictions which
are provided by the Game and Fisheries Act as a means of protecting existing fur
bearing animals in this Province, and while in some particular instances these
regulations may appear to be unnecessary appearances of such a nature are deceptive.
As a general rule the more desirable species of fur bearers are diminishing in
number, no doubt attributable for the most part to decreased suitable and available
habitat as well as to the intensified trapping operations to which these animals
have been subjected in past years. In Northern Ontario all the species of fur-bearing
animals mentioned in this report are to be found in varying numbers while in
Southern Ontario at the present time fur bearing animals would include fox, mink,
muskrat, raccoon, skunk and weasel, and, to a lesser extent beaver and otter, the
other species herein referred to being practically extinct in this section.
There is no doubt that the year under review was an extremely difficult one for
the trapper, because as will be observed from the following comparative statement
not only was there a considerable decrease in the number of pelts actually taken
and disposed of but the prices which these pelts commanded on the open market
were indeed quite low, and much below what has been recorded as average in more
recent years.
This comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of the various species of
fur bearing animals which were exported from or dressed within the Province, during
the year under review as well as in the two years immediately preceding: —
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (white)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
411
476
496
6,785
238
235
2,137
2,117
1,463
5,424
4,156
2,426
37,044
35,232
24,912
500
360
201
883
17
47
2,642
2,081
1,284
1,282
1,464
1,709
47,057
33,930
22,766
398,043
370,239
343,972
3,701
3,779
3,737
13,259
14,243
13,194
50,747
87,950
61,576
42,643
78,643
79,853
4
2
5
613,057
635,203
557,876
Information compiled in the Department shows that these furs were worth
to the trappers responsible for taking the same, the sum of $966,552.92, which is
but little more than fifty per cent of the amount realized from such sales in the
previous year.
To these figures should be added statistics as they apply to the product
of licensed fur farms not subject to the payment of royalty, including silver, black
and cross foxes and mink. Furs disposed of during the year by these fur farmers
included 33,235 silver fox pelts worth $683,643.95, 26,480 of which were exported
and the remaining 6,755 dressed in the Province; 24,864 mink pelts worth
$209,852.16, 24,381 of which were exported and the remaining 483 dressed in the
Province; and 233 cross fox pelts worth $3,467.04, 192 of which were exported and
the remaining 41 dressed in the Province.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
11
FUR FARMING
During the year there were 1,536 licenses issued to authorize fur farming
operations. Of this number some 331 were new licenses. As compared with the
previous year there was a net increase in the number of licensed fur farms under
operation totalling 188. The records show that silver foxes were raised on 986 of
these fur farms, cross foxes on 103 fur farms, red foxes on 133 fur farms, mink on
614 fur farms, and raccoon on 91 fur farms. There were 859 fur farms on which
operations were confined to foxes, 451 fur farms on which only mink were raised,
while on 38 fur farms only raccoon were propagated. On the remaining 188 fur
farms operations were not limited to any one species.
The subjoined comparative table shows the total breeding stock retained on
these licensed fur farms as on the first day of January in each of the years included
therein: —
SUMMARY OF BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS
AS AT JANUARY 1ST
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Bear
Marten
1936
70
16
367
228
21,645
5
2
12 332
375
524
3
21
4
1937
21
20
257
207
23,869
0
2
15,539
351
358
5
15
4
1938
25
16
235
140
24,848
0
2
21,982
302
351
9
15
11
It will be observed that silver fox and mink represent by far the greater
proportion of the activities which are carried on by the operators of these licensed
fur farms, and though in each instance an increase is indicated, that in the case
of mink far exceeded the increase in silver fox. The raising of mink is rapidly
becoming an important branch of the fur farming industry. One can realize the
truth of this statement when it is noted that the stock of mink maintained on these
fur farms increased from 8,605 to 21,982 in a period of only three years.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
One of the first measures taken to preserve the game in the Province of Ontario
was the setting aside of large areas of land as Provincial Parks. In these Parks no
hunting or trapping is permitted and the wild life is given a chance to increase and
develop under natural conditions and without molestation from man. These pro-
tective areas proved so successful that the idea was extended and large areas of
crown lands in Northern Ontario have been set aside for the same purpose under
the Department of Game and Fisheries. These areas are known as Crown Game
Preserves. At the present time there are 116 such Crown Game Preserves with an
area of approximately 6,068,914 acres.
While the largest portion of this area is situated in Northern Ontario it has
been possible to establish a number of preserve areas in the southern part of the
Province with the co-operation of owners of private property. These areas will be
primarily useful for the protection and propagation of upland game birds, although
all species of desirable game will be protected.
12 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9
It is generally acknowledged that where wild life is allowed to propagate
with a minimum of human interference and in surroundings which provide natural
food and cover there will in time be a return to the normal conditions set up by
nature. This means not only increased game in the protected areas but a general
improvement in conditions throughout the Province.
During the year five additional Crown Game Preserves were established in
southwestern Ontario in accordance with the schedule appended hereto, and changes
were made in the boundaries of the Jocko Crown Game Preserve in the District of
Nipissing and in the Peasemarsh Crown Game Preserve, in the County of Grey.
Designation
County
Extent in
Acres
Crossbill Crown Game Preserve
Hiffhsate " " "
Waterloo
Kent
Peel
Welland
Norfolk
1,200
575
Long Branch " " "
450
Wainfleet " " "...
5,000
400
Windham " " "
REGULATED GAME PRESERVE AREAS
The year saw a new development in the matter of the control of indiscriminate
hunting. In line with the desire to provide better hunting and to maintain in large
measure the privilege which sportsmen have enjoyed for generations of using
private lands in the pursuit of game, arrangements were entered into between the
Department and some twenty-seven Townships whereby hunting in these Townships
would be restricted to certain open seasons for pheasants and rabbits, and that only
those who had the necessary hunting license issued by the Municipality would be
authorized to take advantage of the open dates. This had the effect of creating these
areas as Regulated Game Preserves because of the fact that hunting was prohibited
except on open dates as proclaimed on the recommendation of the Department.
These open dates were limited to a two-day pheasant shoot and a seasonal period
during the winter for rabbit hunting. It had an additional effect of preventing
an influx of non-residents to the area because the number of special licenses issued
was based on the number of available pheasants and only those with a pheasant
license were permitted to partake in the rabbit hunting. The Municipality collected
a small fee for the license. The Department stocked these areas with several
thousand live birds and hopes to largely increase its pheasant production for the
restocking of these Regulated Areas.
By concentrating the restocking of pheasants on these Regulated Areas, rather
than scattering the available birds over a large section of Southern Ontario and
thereby thinning the numbers in most counties below the point where hunting is
desirable, it is believed a sufficient quantity of birds will be raised to warrant
an open season. The bag limit which would apply during an open season would
permit the taking of cock birds only. Continuous replenishment of the stock will be
part of the plan so that an open season simply means a temporary reduction of the
surplus stock. In other words protecting the hens will maintain an ever increasing
brood stock and the surplus destroyed during a shoot will be replaced to take care
of the next open season.
Several specific and important results are anticipated from this arrangement.
First, and quite important, is the fact that the farmer will not be subject to the
expense and inconvenience of having irresponsible hunters tramping over his lands
and damaging property during the whole gun license season. It is well known that
the actions of a few have brought about a feeling of animosity between the farmer and
the sportsman, a situation which threatens to put an end to free hunting. Those who
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obtain a license during the open season will be readily identified, and abuse of the
privilege will mean prosecution and cancellation of any future privileges. As the
carrying of fire-arms for hunting purposes within such Regulated Areas is forbidden,
except during such open seasons as may be prescribed and then only under the
authority of a special license, it is hoped to eliminate practically all of the poaching
which otherwise takes place.
It is pleasing to learn that the open seasons established in these Regulated
Townships were quite successful and have done much to stay the epidemic of land
posting which threatened so seriously to curtail the opportunity for hunting over
private lands. It is not suggested, of course, that the present arrangements are
perfect, experience will doubtless bring minor changes in control and regulation
but the inauguration of such a scheme will, we believe, receive the approbation of
every sportsman when its underlying benefits become better known.
The various townships which entered this scheme of Regulated Game Pre-
serve Areas during the year are as follows: —
The Township of Markham, in York County;
The Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar, in Halton County;
The Townships of Flamborough East, Beverley, Ancaster, Saltfleet, Barton and
Binbrook, in Wentworth County;
The Townships of Grimsby North, Clinton, Louth, Grantham, Niagara and
Caistor, in Lincoln County;
The Townships of Stamford, Willoughby, Bertie and Humberstone, in Welland
County;
The Townships of Canborough, Dunn, Cayuga South, Cayuga North, Oneida
and Seneca, in Haldimand County.
Part of the Township of Westminister, in Middlesex County;
The Township of Bayham, in Elgin County.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty statistics
covering the last four fiscal years: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Oct. 31, 1934.
For year ending Mar. 31, 1936 .
For year ending Mar. 31, 1937.
For year ending Mar. 31, 1938.
990
1,159
1,090
1,022
812
1,713
1,197
837
57
33
31
30
1,859
2,905
2,318
1,889
$27,080.65
42,399.89
33,360.63
27,474.24
During the year 1,380 claims for wolf bounty were paid in respect of 1,889
wolves as shown above, in addition to which 19 claims were disallowed for various
reasons. Bounty was paid to 1,109 different persons, 735 of whom applied in
connection with only one wolf each. Applicants submitting claims on two wolves
numbered 179. The remainder of the applicants had claims for varying numbers,
while the largest total bounty paid to any one person amounted to $210.
Details as to the sources of origin of the pelts submitted for bounty are set
forth in the following table: —
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
REPORT OF WOLF BOUNTY CLAIMS
District or County
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Hastings
Huron
Kenora
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Lennox & Addington
Parry Sound
Patricia
Peterboro
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Waterloo
Welland
York
Totals
Adult Wolves
Timber
82
13
38
6
0
8
8
1
263
0
1
1
13
12
38
0
7
59
59
1
155
24
11
62
2
161
1
0
0
1,026
Brush
109
6
2
0
2
0
4
0
144
4
. 1
0
111
6
11
1
1
3
21
0
188
0
1
114
2
112
0
1
1
845
Pups
0
0
4
0
0
0
6
0
16
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
3
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
36
Total
191
19
44
6
2
8
18
1
423
4
2
1
125
18
49
1
8
62
82
1
346
25
12
176
4
276
1
1
1
1,907
While the total expenditures incurred in connection with the administration of
the Wolf Bounty Act amounted to $27,474.24, actual bounty payments accounted
for $27,204.00 of this total, details of which are contained in the following
statement: —
Brush Wolves (Counties)
(Districts)
21
816
@
@
@
@
@
$ 6.00
$15.00
$ 6.00
$15.00
$ 2.00
$ 5.00
$ 126.00
$12,240.00
Total Brush Wolves
Timber Wolves (Counties)
(Districts)
837
71
951
$ 426.00
$14,265.00
$12,366.00
Total Timber Wolves
Pups (Counties)
(Districts)
1,022
1
29
$ 2.00
$ 145.00
$14,691.00
Total Pups
30
1,889
$ 147.00
Grand Total
$27,204.00
In the northern districts the Province pays the entire bounty, but so far as
claims originating in the southern counties are concerned, bounty is paid by the
County Treasurers and forty per cent rebated to the counties by the Province.
Trappers and farmers were responsible for taking more than eighty per cent
of the wolf pelts submitted for bounty, while it is reported that forty-five per cent
of the animals were snared, twenty-six per cent trapped, twenty-one per cent shot,
and the authorized use of poison was responsible for taking only three per cent.
The remaining five per cent were taken by miscellaneous means.
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GENERAL
GAME & FISHERIES ACT.
The Game and Fisheries Laws are an important part of the Department's pro-
gramme to properly conserve the heritage with which it is entrusted. They are
not merely regulatory or restrictive but are, in reality, the controlling factors
which determine the abundance or otherwise of our wild life resources. They are
the result of biological knowledge and practical experience, and have been framed
with due regard to the life history of the various species, particularly that phase
of it which determines perpetuation. These laws have many classifications but in
general they are intended to develop all classes of desirable wild life while per-
mitting the greatest possible use of these resources, and to discourage certain
undesirable forms which do not fit into the economic scheme of things.
A study of the laws and regulations will convince the most skeptical that they
are an important part of the programme necessary for the conservation of our
fish and game resources and that when the public is urged to observe the laws it is
a request for co-operation in the management of a valuable trust. Non-observance
of the regulations, however unimportant the details may seem, is unfair to that
ever-increasing family of sportsmen and nature lovers who conscientiously obey the
laws and pursue their recreational pleasures from the highest standard of sports-
manship.
Amendments enacted by the Legislative Assembly and which became effective
during the year included the following provisions: —
(a) Open season and other regulations governing the hunting of
woodcock, snipe, ducks, geese and other migratory water-fowl
to be as provided by the Migratory Birds Convention Act
(Canada).
(b) Parties of non-resident hunters to engage licensed guides
when hunting moose.
(c) Non-resident bear hunting license for the months of April and
May at a fee of $5.25.
(d) Adjustment of royalties on the pelts of certain fur-bearing
animals, — lynx, mink, otter and skunk. Ranch raised cross
fox exempted from royalty.
(e) Taking of does and fawns permitted in the proportion of one
doe or fawn for each two hunters in the party.
(f ) Use of snares prohibited in Peel and Carleton Counties.
(g) Permitting use of an automatic shot gun when so permanently
reconstructed and plugged as to be capable of holding not
more than two shells at any one time.
Amendments to the Fisheries Regulations adopted during the year included
the following provisions: —
(a) Minor changes in the open seasons for pickerel, lake trout and
whitefish in certain northern districts.
(b) Persons engaging licensed guides while angling not to include
such guide as one of their number when computing the num-
ber or quantity of fish they are entitled to take.
(c) Exportation of maskinonge by non-resident anglers restricted
to one day's catch.
TOURIST OUTFITTERS.
Complete reference to the system of licensing tourist outfitters operating in
the northern portion of the Province was embodied in the previous Annual Report.
The following analysis shows the distribution by Districts of the 498 camps which
were licensed to operate during the year under review: —
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TOURIST OUTFITTERS CAMP LICENSES
SUMMARY
Algoma 7 3
Cochrane 2
Kenora 103
Manitoulin 37
Nipissing 91
Parry Sound 90
Patricia 1
Rainy River 28
Renfrew 10
Sudbury 47
Thunder Bay 15
Temiskaming 1
Total 498
Four hundred and fifty-six of these camps were operated by residents of Ontario,
the remaining forty-two by non-residents.
EDUCATIONAL.
In a previous report reference was made to the preparation and distribution of a
Monthly Bulletin. This publication was originally produced wholly in the Department
and took the form of a mimeographed booklet. Because of the work entailed
it had necessarily a limited circulation, although many requests for copies were
received. To ensure a wider distribution and to take care of the increasing demands
for copies from Protective Associations, schools and private individuals, it was found
desirable to have the material printed. Beginning with the May, 1937, issue,
therefore, the Bulletin assumed a new form, and a greater significance as an
educational medium in the sphere of wild life conservation. The original issue
amounted to about 600 copies monthly, under the new scheme of publication the
circulation immediately doubled and since then it has continued to increase with
each issue.
In this connection we quote the following editorial comment from the June,
1937, issue of this Monthly Bulletin: —
"Education is the foundation of all intelligent thought and action. It is the
most important factor entering into the conservation of our wild life and other
natural resources. Such progress as has been made in protecting, propagating and
re-stocking is due to the practical knowledge and scientific attainment. Practical
knowledge of wild life conditions is the result of experience gained in actual personal
contact and observations under natural conditions. It is not always reliable taken
alone because unwarranted conclusions are frequently drawn from certain conditions
or experiences which are open to several explanations. However, the practical
value of such first-hand information is of very great importance as it serves to
confirm the conclusions arrived at through scientific investigation. The combination
of these two sources of knowledge is the basis of our conservation programme."
"Knowledge, however, is progressive. It knows no limitation. The ideas of
yesterday are but the stepping-stones to future enlightenment and creative effort.
In the field of wild life conservation moie attention is being paid to the scientific
investigation of life history and environmental conditions. The idea that our wild
life resources are inexhaustible passed on with the horse and buggy and the
carrier pigeon. Nature provided certain fundamental conditions necessary to wild
life perpetuation. We have unwittingly disturbed these conditions and so, in order
to keep pace with modern demands, we must take advantage of modern knowledge
and experience. This means wise conservation laws based on biological knowledge
and practical experience; the investigation of life history and natural conditions;
the operation of hatcheries for intensive stocking; the setting aside of preserve
areas for natural propagation and development, and the passing on of the knowledge
acquired to the public through means of education and publicity. These things, the
Department of Game and Fisheries is attempting to do. The results so far have
justified the effort."
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"The sportsman can do much to foster these plans by co-operating wherever
practicable and by lending his aid to put across the ideals of conservation. These
ideals have been developed over a long period of years. They embody the results of
progressive thought and scientific knowledge, therefore they are modern and worth
while. They proclaim individual responsibility as necessary to success, and or-
ganized effort the best method of accomplishing the greatest good for the greatest
number. In short, conservation is education practically applied, and is the care
of everyone interested in wild life preservation or better hunting and fishing."
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE
Many people, who take but a superficial view of the matter, believe that all
that is necessary to eliminate and control the ills which afflict organized society,
is to enact regulatory laws designed to take care of the problem or problems
involved. Laws are essential and necessary to good government, but they are not
in themselves a panacea for all the troubles which beset our social and economic
systems. Experience has demonstrated that the fewer the laws and the simpler
their enactments to cover any particular subject the more effective is their enforce-
ment.
The Game and Fisheries Laws are necessary to the proper administration and
perpetuation of our wild life. They are designed with a view to providing the
greatest possible individual liberty consistent with the wise use of the resources
involved. These laws are respected by a large majority of the citizens of the
Province and their observance becomes more and more a passport to good sportsman-
ship. However, despite their simplicity, we still have the law breaker, the man
who continues to ignore legal restrictions and thereby takes unfair advantage of
those who "play the game". It is too much to hope that we can entirely eliminate
this offender, but there is good reason to believe that through our united efforts
we can do much to show the careless and the thoughtless that observance of and
respect for the Game and Fisheries Laws is quite an important feature in the
protection and development of our wild life natural resources.
To administer and enforce the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act the
Department maintains a regular staff of Field officers throughout the Province.
These men are designated Overseers or Game Wardens, and their duties consist of
securing observance of the laws and regulations pertaining to fishing, hunting and
trapping. Their task is a difficult one though they are invariably courteous but
firm in carrying out their duties. These permanent members of our field staff
constitute an important section of the protective service. However, their services
are augmented by the assistance and co-operation of members of the Ontario
Provincial Police Force as well as certain seasonal officers who are retained for
varying periods in the matter of providing adequate patrol service along certain
waters during the spring and fall fish spawning periods and protective work during
the various hunting seasons.
Interested sportsmen also play a large part in the work of protecting our
fish and game resources. During the year some 876 sportsmen conservationists
offered their services and were accepted as Deputy Game Wardens, and as such
are authorized to assist in obtaining proper observance of the Act and Regulations.
The practical support and moral effect of this army of voluntary workers is of very
great importance in preventing abuses of the privileges enjoyed by sportsmen.
The Department deplores the fact that it is necessary to prosecute in order to
obtain proper observance of the Game and Fisheries Laws. It is hoped that through
education, an enlightened public opinion, and a general knowledge of the value of our
resources the law breaker will become so unpopular that his depredations will be
considerably reduced. In the meantime, however, the poacher, the unscrupulous
trapper and the petty lawbreaker still keep the enforcement officers busy.
During 19 37-38 there were some 136 2 cases in which offenders against pro-
visions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regulations were apprehended in their
offences by members of the Field Service Staff who promptly relieved those involved
of the articles of sporting equipment they carried as well as the unlawful game or
fish they might have had in their possession on such occasions. From an examination
of the reports supplied in these cases it is learned that action was provided by
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Game and Fisheries Overseers in 1157 of these cases, by Deputy Game Wardens in
62 cases, by members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force in 48 cases, and in the
remaining 95 cases by co-operative action amongst Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens,
and Provincial Police Constables.
A condensed summary of the material confiscated shows the following: —
Live animals in 7 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 160 cases
Firearms and ammunition in 460 cases
Fish in 209 cases
Nets and fishing equipment in 213 cases
Angling equipment in 8 4 cases
Pelts and hides in 228 cases
Traps and equipment in 166 cases
Water craft in 29 cases
Motor vehicles in 11 cases
Lights in 21 cases
Spears in 66 cases
Miscellaneous in 52 cases
Duplicate entries on one seizure report, such as firearms and game; angling
equipment and fish; trapping equipment and pelts, and other combinations of a
similar nature account for the apparent discrepancy in the total shown by the
foregoing table, viz, 1706, as compared with seizure reports numbering 1362.
Departmental records disclose the fact that during the year reported upon
some 1108 cases were prosecuted through the courts, and that convictions were
registered in 1045 of these cases, while charges in the remaining 63 cases were
dismissed by the Magistrates who presided thereon. Game and Fisheries Overseers
prosecuted in 960 cases and were successful in 913; Provincial Police Constables
in 67 cases and secured convictions in 62; Deputy Game Wardens in 18 cases in 16
of which convictions were registered; while co-operative action by Overseers,
Provincial Police and Deputy Game Wardens resulted in 54 convictions out of the
63 cases prosecuted.
While each officer is required to be impartial and eflBcient in the carrying out
of his duties he is also required to use common sense and display courtesy in his
treatment of the general public with whom he conies into contact. We believe that
as a general rule the members of our enforcement service are guided by these
requirements at all times. Public service is synonymous with criticism rather
than commendation. The control which is essential to the proper administration
of a trust, such as our wild life resources, is often irksome to those who object
to anything in the nature of restrictions on their so-called "liberties". As a
consequence enforcement frequently results in irritation. For this reason we are
always glad to receive letters such as the following from one of our United States
visitors who resides in the State of Ohio. He writes, "For ten years I have been
coming to your Province to do my fishing and the courtesy and consideration ex-
tended to me by the ofiicials of your bureau and the citizens of the various com-
munities visited has been very gratifying to me."
THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
Waters abounding in fish are an asset to any community. Increased fishing
possibilities mean increased tourist travel; this stabilizes various business enter-
prises, especially in recreation centres noted for their game-fish. Apart, however,
from the direct and indirect financial benefits of a rapidly increasing tourist trade,
the healthful and recreational advantages associated with game-fishing are of
inestimable value.
The maintenance of the commercial fishing industry is also of vital importance
to the Province. Information regarding the value of this enterprise is summed up
in the statistics of the fishing industry for the year in appendices 3 and 4.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38 19
The successful maintenance and increased usefulness of these interests are
being developed in a variety of ways and the re-stocking of lakes and streams in a
practical manner is of outstanding importance in this connection. To this end a
vigorous fish cultural programme is being pursued with satisfactory results.
HATCHERIES AND REARING STATIONS
During the year the Department operated twenty-four fish cultural stations.
The actual number of hatcheries operated was twenty; trout rearing stations, eleven;
bass rearing stations, four, and additional facilities were provided as outlined in
the following paragraphs.
At the Fort Frances hatchery facilities were provided for carrying lake trout
to the fry and early fingerling stages.
An excellent site for bass rearing ponds was located at the outlet of Lake
Manitou, Manitoulin Island, in the vicinity of Sandfield. One pond was completed
before the end of the year and was used, successfully, for wintering trout fingerlings
to the yearling stage.
A second bass rearing pond, approximately one acre in area, was provided
at the White Lake Station, Frontenac County. Speckled trout were wintered in this
new pond very successfully.
An additional trout pond was added to the series of three on the property of
the Ontario Government Reforestry Station at Midhurst, and acquired for use by the
Department.
The water supply from Waring's Creek, located one and one-half miles west
of Picton, was used for rearing trout fingerlings. This station was provided with
outside rearing troughs of portable construction.
SPECKLED TROUT:
The Department continued the policy of rearing large numbers of trout
to yearling and older stages for distribution to suitable public waters. The results
of this plan have been successful.
The following comparative distribution figures indicate the progress that
is being made:
1936 1937
Yearlings 557,270 1,167,073
Adults 6,081 16,150
In addition, 384,725 fingerling trout were planted, slightly more than one-third
the number planted the previous year. The entire abandonment of the distribution
of trout fry and fingerlings is contemplated, with the exception of any surplus which
cannot be accommodated in our rearing stations.
BROWN TROUT:
Excellent progress was made in regard to rearing brown trout to the yearling
stage. During the year 97,484 yearling and older brown trout were distributed as
compared with 7,290 during a similar period in the preceding year.
Encouraging reports of successful angling for this species have been received and
intensive re-stocking of suitable streams in southern Ontario is being pursued on
the basis set forth in the two preceding reports.
RAINBOW TROUT:
(a) Steelhead Trout —
The waters chosen for the planting of steelhead trout were such as to fulfil
the natural requirements of this species; the number of steelhead rainbows planted
was somewhat less than the number planted in 1936, but the number of Kamloops
trout (an allied species) distributed made up for this deficit.
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(b) Kamloops trout —
This variety of rainbow trout is native to a number of lakes in the interior of
British Columbia. It is an excellent sporting fish and may be taken on the fly and
by trolling. Excepting during hot summer weather they are usually taken near the
surface. One important characteristic is that they show very little tendency, if any,
to migrate from the lakes in which they are planted.
Speckled trout lakes supplied with good tributary streams are considered
suitable for Kamloops trout.
Eighty thousand fingerlings of this species were planted during the year.
Returns from previous plantings in Echo Lake (Muskoka) and a small lake
adjacent to Lake Timagami, are, we hope, forerunners of greater success to be
achieved from the distribution of this important variety to a number of our lakes.
LAND-LOCKED SALMON:
The Department was unable to secure any eggs of this species from the Pro-
vince of Quebec or elsewhere. The land-locked salmon hatchery at St. Felicien,
Quebec, has not operated for some time.
A small number of fry of the Atlantic salmon, a closely related species, were
planted on an experimental basis.
A few excellent specimens of land-locked salmon planted in Skeleton Lake,
Muskoka District, have been caught by angling.
LAKE TROUT:
There was an increase in the distribution of eyed eggs and fry over the number
distributed in the preceding year amounting to 7 per cent. There was a decrease
in the distribution of fingerlings amounting to 13.6 per cent. For the egg collection,
the Department depends on the co-operation of the fishermen and the work of our
own spawntaking crews. Stormy weather in the fall, either continuously or inter-
mittently, interferes with the work; this condition was particularly detrimental
during the fall of 1937.
WHITEFISH:
There was a decrease of approximately 9.6 per cent in the distribution of
whitefish as compared with that of the previous year; this was due to the reduced
collection of spawn from the North Channel and Lake Ontario whitefish.
HERRING:
The large decrease in the distribution of herring fry was due in the main
to the reduction in the collection of eggs from Lake Ontario herring and a greater
reduction in the collection from Lake Erie herring, the latter collection being prac-
tically negligible. There are very hopeful signs that the population of herring in
Lake Erie is gradually increasing after the disastrous decline in 1925. If the present
population is permitted to spawn at least once, and preferably twice, before they
are taken commercially, there will be a decided increase of this very important
commercial species. As a result large collections of spawn should be available in
future years.
YELLOW PICKEREL:
There was a decrease of 12.4 per cent in the distribution of pickerel fry as
compared with that of the preceding year, due primarily to the reduced collection
of pickerel spawn in the southern portion of Lake Huron.
Following the usual practice, two million eyed eggs were handled by the
Sparrow Lake hatchery, the fry being distributed to suitable areas of Sparrow Lake.
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SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS:
Excellent results were obtained in connection with the culture of small-mouthed
black bass; the increased production of fry and fingerlings was 63.4 per cent and
104.5 per cent, respectively, over that of the previous year.
There was also a slight increase in the distribution of yearlings and older bass,
as a result of bass harvesting from natural areas; a limited amount of this work
is conducted by our hatchery officers, annually.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS:
Following the previous year's practice, one pond was operated for the pro-
duction of this species with satisfactory results. This pond, which is 0.64 acres in
area, produced 135,000 fry and 4,120 fingerlings.
YELLOW PERCH:
Due to a diminished run of spawning fish, there was considerable reduction in
the number of perch eggs collected by the commercial fishermen in the vicinity of
the Kingsville hatchery, where the eggs are cultured to the fry stage.
BLUE PICKEREL:
Blue pickerel spawn was collected in the west end of Lake Erie and cultured
to the fry stage in the Kingsville hatchery; this was the first time that such work
was undertaken by our Department.
This is a species of considerable commercial value in Lake Erie, and artificial
culture is one way by which its maintenance may be assisted.
MASKINONGE:
The distribution of maskinonge fry was increased 53.5 per cent over that
of the preceding year, due largely to a much more satisfactory collection of eggs.
One chief drawback was prevailing cold weather during the incubation period, which
retarded development. This condition was followed by a sharp rise in temperature,
causing too rapid development and hatching.
The difficulties surrounding the culture of this important species were outlined
in the previous year's report, and the information given applies with equal force
to the results obtained in 1937.
In Wisconsin the culture of maskinonge has been pursued for thirty to
forty years. A large number of eggs are collected from areas where the parent fish
are abundant, and a large number of fry are planted annually, but the rearing
of fingerlings is a much more difficult matter; Wisconsin is reported to have
reared 1,417 fingerlings of this species in 1937. New York State has likewise
pursued the culture of maskinonge for over thirty years. This work is concentrated
on Lake Chautauqua where parent maskinonge are plentiful and, therefore, egg
collection and fry production large; in 1937 it is recorded that New York State
planted 856 maskinonge fingerlings. In Minnesota progress along these lines has
been slow on account of the scarcity of the breeding fish. Small numbers of fry
have been distributed, but there is no authentic or definite record of the number
of fingerlings actually reared up to and including 1937.
In Ontario these activities are concentrated in the Kawartha Lakes region
and for good reasons. In the first place, these waters have the necessary or essential
conditions for producing maskinonge. Secondly, this area requires intensive re-
stocking on account of the intensity of the fishing. A good indication of the
capacity of these lakes to produce maskinonge is given in the statistics of catch
from 1892 to 1901, when this important species was taken in large numbers, com-
mercially.
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The Department is endeavouring to maintain and to build up the maskinonge
supply in a variety of ways, which may be summed up in a more or less concise
manner as follows:
1. Restricted bag limit and restricted number of days' fishing.
2. Protection of the normal population in sanctuary areas, taking in waters
adjacent and outside these areas only the natural increase from them. An ex-
planation of the purposes of these sanctuaries was given in detail in the
previous year's report.
3. The planting of fry in suitable areas.
4. Further studies regarding the possibilities of rearing fry to the fingerling
stage.
CLOSED WATERS
In addition to those waters already closed for the natural protection and
propagation of fish, the following closures were autnorized during the year.
(a) For Speckled Ti-out Propagation:
DUCHESNEY CREEK,
Townships of Commanda and Widdifield, District of Nipissing.
IDLWYLD STREAM,
Township of Waterloo, County of Waterloo.
JOHNSON CREEK,
Townships of Kowkash, Paska, and Rupert, District of Thunder Bay.
LITTLE JOCKO RIVER,
From Morrow's Dam, east to its outlet into Big Jocko River, District of Nipissing.
MALTA LAKE,
Township of Boulter, District of Nipissing.
NELLIE LAKE,
Townships of Calver and Aurora, District of Cochrane.
PATTERSON'S CREEK,
Townships of Wawanosh and HuUett, County of Huron.
PUMPHOUSE CREEK,
Townships of Hart and Cartier, District of Sudbury.
WHITEHEAD'S CREEK,
Township 67, District of Algoma.
(b) For Black Bass Propagation:
ARCAND LAKE,
Township of McBeth, District of Sudbury.
FOUR MILE LAKE,
Township of Widdifield, District of Nipissing.
GEORGIAN BAY (Portion),
(a) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Electric Island.
(b) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Lot 51, Concession VIII.,
Township of Harrison, District of Parry Sound.
(c) An area lying east of and extending approximately 2 miles along the shore
line opposite Concessions XIII. and XIV., Township of Harrison, District of
Parry Sound.
TWELVE MILE CREEK,
Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar, County of Halton.
(c) For Lake Trout Proimgation,
OTTER LAKE,
Township of Foley, District of Parry Sound (Effective from the 16th day of
November in each year to the 15th day of May next following).
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WATER LEVELS
During the past three years, marked improvement has been shown in regar<?
to the control of water levels. Biologically, proper control is of the greatest im-
portance, especially when we consider that bass, maskinonge, pike, sunfish, minnows,
and many other species spawn in shallow water, and that their immature stages,
or adult stages, or both, live in comparatively shallow water. The fall spawning
fish such as lake trout, herring, and whitefish run into comparatively shallow
water and spawn on suitable shoals or grounds. The spawning depth of water
for these fall spawners is much greater than that required by black bass, which
is about two feet, or by minnows, which is only a few inches. The withdrawal of
water from these shallows is menacing to the eggs of the spawning fish, this
depending on the spawning depth and the drop in water level, but quite apart from
this, the withdrawal of water from the shallows destroys myriad forms of life, for
example, those of sedentary habit, those temporarily attached, the algae which
harbour minute life, shellfish, and insects, and aquatic plants of various kinds.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH
Between December 20th and January 16th hoop nets were operated for the
removal of ling from the following waters:
(a) In Leeds County, —
Charleston, Grippen, Wolfe, and Otter Lakes.
(b) In Lanark County, —
Tay River and Otty Lake.
The total number of ling removed from these waters was 6,520; the average
weight of the ling was 7 pounds, and the total weight of ling removed was in the
neighbourhood of 45,640 pounds or 22.8 tons.
Similar operations were conducted on Lake Manitou, Manitoulin Island. During
the whitefish spawntaking operations in the lake 4068 pounds of ling were taken in
pound nets. The average weight of each ling was approximately six pounds. Night
lines were used experimentally without satisfactory results.
During the latter part of February and in March of 19 38, hoop nets and
gill nets were operated and 2270 pounds of ling taken. Each of these averaged
four pounds in weight.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Pollution surveys were conducted on the Rainy River, Maitland River,
(Goderich), and the Niagara River.
Fish planting surveys were carried out on the Holland River, Bradford,
and Waterworks Pond at Richmond Hill.
Extensive surveys were conducted in connection with suitable sites for black
bass rearing ponds on Manitoulin Island, Muskoka District, and Peterborough
County. Surveys were also conducted in the Timiskaming District in regard to a
suitable site for a trout rearing station.
With the exceptions noted above, all the work of a biological nature was con-
centrated on the fish cultural activities carried on in our hatcheries and rearing
stations.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Biology,
University of Toronto, conducted field investigations, coupled with laboratory studies
on a number of waters in Algonquin Park during the season 1937-38, and the
following is a concise account of this important work:
"One of the principal functions of this laboratory is to examine the conditions in
game fish producing lakes and streams. Information obtained in this way gives
a better understanding of how rapidly fish grow and how a good supply can be
maintained. During 1937-38 the work was carried on in the lakes and streams
of Algonquin Park.
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The major studies undertaken during the year included an investigation of
the vertical distribution of the young of the yellow perch in relation to their
availability as food for lake trout. The food of the young perch was studied in
order to learn what governed the supply of this important source of trout food.
The food was found to consist of 85% Daphnia or water fleas, 10% small insect
larvae and 5% sunfish fry.
Other studies were directed to the production of insects in the lakes and
streams from the point of view of their value as food for fish.
The collection of angling statistics was continued and extended. These figures
are now extensive enough to make possible a preliminary estimate of the natural
productivity of the Algonquin Park lakes with respect to lake trout. They have
also proven their value in following the trend of speckled trout production in Red
Rock lake, and have made possible the application of measures designed to keep
up production in this important lake.
During the year about 200 adult lake trout were transferred to Cache lake,
some by truck and some by air, with satisfactory ease and economy. Some 2,000,000
perch fry, 100,000 lake herring fry, and some minnows were planted in Cache
lake. These forage fish were introduced for the purpose of increasing the food
for the bass and the lake trout."
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In conclusion I desire to give expression to my appreciation of the valuable
assistance and co-operation rendered the Department from many sources during
the year, and more particularly from the various Fish and Game Protective As-
sociations as such and the individual members of these organizations. The sphere
of activity of these Protective Associations is extending and the interest and
influence of the members of these organizations and other sincere sportsmen is
sufficiently evident to warrant the assertion that it is practically impossible to
estimate the benefits derived by the Department therefrom in our efforts along
the lines of providing an efficient administration and supervision of the wild life
natural resources of this Province. Such a measure of co-operation encourages
us to intensify our endeavours to preserve unimpaired and possibly improve the
opportunities which exist in this Province to those who so desire to enjoy such
healthly recreation which our fish and game make available.
It might also be stated that, generally speaking, members of the Staff, both
the inside and outside service, have conducted themselves and performed the duties
assigned to them in the best interests of the Department and its varied activities.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
Toronto, April 12th, 1939.
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937 to March 31st, 1938
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Marie Lake 5,000
Maryville Lake 10,000
Saugeen Lake 10,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 10,000
Saugeen River 15,000
Muskoka:
Bass Lake 5,000
Black Lake 10,000
Wood Lake 10,000
Parry Sound:
Limestone Lake 5,000
Little Lake 5,000
Wolf River 10,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 25,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 15,000
FINGERLINGS
Durham:
Lake Scugog 1,000
Haliburton:
Black Lake 500
Nipissing:
Blackwater Lake 1,000
Norfolk:
Little Lake 500
Teeterville Poad 500
York:
Mary Lake 510
Waterworks Pond 110
ADULTS
Oxford:
Lakeside Lake 42
Maplehurst Lake 50
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Britain Lake 5,000
Burford Lake 10,000
Cameron Lake 10,000
Chesley Lake 10,000
Gould Lake 10,000
Isaac Lake 15,000
Miller Lake 10,000
Pearl Lake 5,000
Saugeen River 15,000
Shouldice Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Carleton :
Ottawa River 15,000
Rideau River 10,000
Frontenac:
Big Gull Lake 10,000
Clear Lake (Kennebec) . . 5,000
Fortune Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Clarendon) . . 5,000
Mink Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Sand Lake 5,000
Sharbot Lake 10,000
Sunday Lake 5,000
Grenville:
Nine Mile Reach 5,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 15,000
Crow Lake 10,000
Gunter Lake 5,000
Little Salmon River 5,000
Moira River 10,000
Stoco Lake 10,000
Tongamong Lake 5,000
Lanark :
Rennet's Lake 5,000
Black Lake 5,000
Christie Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Dalhousie Lake 5,000
Mississippi Lake 10,000
Fagan's Lake 5,000
Otty Lake 5,000
Pike Lake 5,000
Leeds :
Beverley Lake (lower) . . 10,000
Big Rideau Lake 40,000
Charleston Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Crosby Lake 5,000
Gananoque Lake 10,000
Grippen Lake 5,000
Indian Lake 10,000
Newboro Lake 5,000
Opinicon Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 5,000
South Lake 5,000
Troy Lake 5,000
Lennox:
Lime Lake 5,000
Long Lake 5,000
Slave Lake 5,000
South Beaver Lake 5,000
Muskoka:
Beaver Lake 5,000
Buck Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Dickie Lake 10,000
Kahshe Lake 5,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Muskoka — Continued
Lake Joseph 25,000
Lake Stewart 15,000
Leech Lake 5,000
Morrison Lake 10,000
Rat Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Wood Lake 10,000
Northumberland :
Bidy Lake 5,000
CroAV Bay 5,000
Crow River 10,000
Rice Lake 15,000
Trent River 10,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 20,000
Parry Sound:
Balsam Lake 10,000
Bass Lake (Humphrey) . 5,000
Bass Lake (Patterson) . . 10,000
Beaver Lake (Foley) 5,000
Blackstone Lake 10,000
Blackwater Lake 5,000
Clear Lake (Humphrey) . 5,000
Clear Lake (Patterson) .. 5,000
Commanda Lake 10,000
Crane Lake 5,000
Crooked Lake 10,000
Deer Lake (Lount) 10,000
Deer Lake (McKenzie) . . 5,000
Diamond Lake 5,000
Horseshoe Lake 10,000
Jackson Lake 5,000
Lake Joseph 10,000
Little Long Lake 10,000
Manitowaba Lake 10,000
Mary Jane Lake 5,000
Mill Lake 10,000
Pickerel River 10,000
Rankins Lake 10,000
Restoule Lake 10,000
Ruth Lake 10,000
Sequin River 10,000
Shawanaga River 10,000
Shebeshekong Lake 5,000
Shoal Lake 5,000
Stormy Lake 5,000
Toad Lake 5,000
Trout Lake (Humphrey) . 5,000
Turtle Lake 5,000
Whitefish Lake 5,000
Whitestone Lake 10,000
Wilson Lake 5,000
Wolf River 10,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 5,000
Deer Lake (Cavendish) . . 5,000
Katchawanooka Lake .... 15,000
Pigeon Lake 15,000
Stony Lake 10,000
Prince Edward:
East Lake 5,000
West Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Cook's Lake 10,000
Gloucester Pool 40,000
Kempenfeldt Bay 25,000
Little Lake (Vespra) 5,000
Park Lake (Tay) 10,000
Stormont:
Nation River 15,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 25,000
Big Mud Turtle Lake 10,000
Burnt River 15,000
Cameron Lake 25,000
Dalrymple Lake 15,000
Head Lake 15,000
Little Mud Turtle Lake . . 10,000
Pigeon Lake 25,000
Round Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Sturgeon Lake 25,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 25,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Batchewana Bay
Dean Lake
Desbarats Lake
Gawas Bay
Gordon Lake
Goulais Bay
Harmony Bay
Haviland Bay
Keichel Lake
Little Basswood Lake . .
Otter Lake
Pipe Lake
Rock Lake
Round Lake
St. Joseph Channel ....
Stuart Lake
Brant:
Big Creek
Grand River
Gravel Pit at Scotland .
Cochrane:
Sesekinika Lake
Frontenac:
Cox's Lake
Cross Lake (Kennebec)
(jross Lake (Palmerston)
Crow Lake
Dog Lake
Elbow Lake
Farm Lake
3,750
2,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
3,750
3,750
3,750
500
1,000
500
500
1,000
1,500
4,000
1.000
1,000
2,000
800
1,000
500
500
2,000
500
1,000
1,000
500
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SMAIiL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Frontenac — Continued
Horseshoe Lake . . . . .
Hotel Lake
Long Lake (Hinchin-
brooke)
Loughborough Lake .
Marble Lake
Mazinaw Lake
Mississagagon Lake . . .
Salmon River
Swamp Lake
White Lake (Bedford)
Grey:
Connell's Lake
Francis Lake
Haliburton:
Beech Lake
Big Boskung Lake . . .
Davis Lake
Dennies Lake
Devils Lake
Elephant Lake
Grass Lake
Gull Lake
Head Lake
Kashagawigamog Lake
Koshlong Lake
Long Lake (Dudley) .
Long Lake (Dysart) . .
Maple Lake
Mink Lake
Misquahbenish Lake . .
North Lake
Pine Lake
Pond Lilly Lake
South Lake
West Lake
West Straggle Lake . .
Halton:
Bronte River
Hastings:
Bass Lake
Moira Lake
Pine Lake
Wadsworth Lake
Lanark:
McGowan's Lake
Lennox-Addington :
Cedar Lake
Loon Lake
Pringle Lake
Sheldrake Lake
Varty Lake
Middlesex:
Thames River
Muskoka:
Bass Lake
500
500
500
2,000
500
1,000
500
500
500
1.000
1,000
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
2.000
1,000
Devine Lake 1,000
Casswell Lake 1,000
Clearwater Lake 1,000
Gull Lake 1,000
Lake McKay 1,000
Lake Rosseau 1,000
Nipissing:
Bear Lake 1,000
Bruce Lake 1,000
Cache Lake 500
Deer Lake 500
Finlayson Lake 1,000
McPhee Lake 1,000
Muskosung Lake 500
Nosbonsing Lake 500
Talon Lake 500
Timagami Lake 1,000
Trout Lake 2,500
Turtle Lake 1,500
Wickstead Lake 1,500
Wis-Wassie Lake 500
Oxford:
Thames River 1,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 1,000
Bear Lake 2,000
Beaver Lake (Bethune) . . 2,000
Beaver Lake (Spence) . . . 1,000
Burden Lake 1,000
Crawford Lake 1,000
Doe Lake 2,000
Lake Cecile 1,000
Lake of Many Islands . . . 1,000
Little Clam Lake 1,000
Little Deer Lake 1,000
Magnetawan River 1,000
Mogonosh Lake 1,000
Pickerel Lake 1,000
Rainy Lake 2,000
Spring Lake 1.000
Peel:
Credit River 2,000
Peterborough:
Burleigh Falls Stream . . . 500
Chemong Lake 500
Clear Lake (Smith) 500
Clear Lake (Cavendish) . 500
Crab Lake 500
Jack's Lake 500
Loon Lake 500
Lovesick Lake 500
Quarry Lake 500
White Lake 500
Simcoe:
Lake Couchiching 1,000
Lake Simcoe 1,000
Nottawasaga Lake 1,000
Severn River 1,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Sudbury:
Badger Lake
Bass Lake
Frood Lake
Lacloche Lake
Lake Agnew
Metagamasi Lake
Ratter Lake
Ted's Lake
Trout Lake (Cherriman) .
Timiskaming:
Lake Timagami
Victoria:
Cranberry Lake
Hurricane Lake
Waterloo:
Conestoga River
Grand River
Paradise Lake
Wellington:
Puslinch Lake
York:
Grenadier Pond
YEARLINGS and ADULTS
Haldimand:
Grand River
Halton:
Crawford's Lake
Hastings:
Bennett Lake
Kenora:
Basket Lake
Birch Lake
Black Sturgeon Lake ....
Dogtooth Lake
Lawrenson's Lake
Long Lake
Longbow Lake
Round Lake
Kent:
Rondeau Bay
Middlesex:
Thames River
Norfolk:
Waterford Pond
Oxford:
Cedar Creek
Peterborough:
Stony Lake
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
2,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
2,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
100
100
50
85
81
82
80
81
40
74
147
40
89
230
100
100
100
Renfrew:
Black Bay 190
Blackfish Bay 100
Bonnechere River 100
Bourgneau, or Snake Lake 102
Coldingham, or Green Lake 110
Colton Lake 108
Corry Lake 95
Devils Lake 100
Foster Lake 25
Genrick's Lake 100
Hurd's Lake 100
Hyde's Bay 8 5
Jack's Lake 90
Jamieson Lake 100
Kaminiskeg Lake 100
Lake Johnnie 96
Long Lake 100
Maskalonge Lake 96
McMaster Lake 100
Moccasin Lake 100
Muskrat River 204
Nakiks Lake (Madawaska
River) 100
Norway Lake 100
Olmstead Lake 100
Round Lake and
Stoney Lake 90
White Lake (McNab) 100
White Lake (Raglan) ... 100
Whitefish Lake 100
Thunder Bay:
Cloud Lake 110
Fox Lake 200
Gull Lake 145
Kashabowie Lake 100
Lac Des Mille Lacs 100
Loon Lake 110
McKay Lake 175
O'Brein Lake 180
Poulin Treble Lakes 110
Shebandowan Lake 150
Silver Lake 115
York:
Grenadier Pond 28
MASKINONGE
FRY
Hastings:
Crow Lake 20,000
Crow River 10,000
Moira Lake 10,000
Moira River 5,000
Sears Lake 5,000
Stoco Lake 10,000
Whitestone Lake 10,000
Leeds :
Rideau River 10,000
St. Lawrence River 20,000
Northumberland:
Cassidy's Bay 10,000
Crow Bay 10,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
MASKIXONGE — Continued
Northumberland — Continued
Crow River 10,000
Rice Lake 20,000
Trent River 40,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 10,000
Buckhorn Lake 10,000
Chemong Lake 15,000
Deer Bay 15,000
Deer Lake 10,000
Katchawanooka Lake .... 15,000
Lovesick Lake 15,000
Otonabee River 10,000
Pigeon Lake 30,000
Round Lake 10,000
Stony Lake 15,000
Trent River 10,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 5,000
Muscote Bay 5,700
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 10,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 10,000
Burnt River 10,000
Mill Pond 10,000
Sturgeon Lake 15,000
PERCH
FRY
Lake Erie 9,150,000
YELLOW PICKEREL (Pike-perch)
FRY
Algoma:
Cummings Lake 150,000
Desbarats Lake 150,000
Duborne Lake 150,000
Echo Lake 418,400
Gordon Lake 200,000
Keichel Lake 400,000
Marion Lake 150,000
Mud Lake 150,000
Otter Lake 100,000
Pipe Lake 150,000
Randolph Lake 100,000
Rock Lake 200,000
Round Lake 100,000
St. Mary River 700,000
Bruce:
Berry's Lake 100,000
Chesley Lake 250,000
Gauley's Bay 500,000
Isaac Lake 250,000
Miller Lake 100,000
Sauble River 325,000
Saugeen River 625,000
Saugeen River — N. Branch 250,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 800,000
Rideau River 400,000
Cochrane:
Bigwater Lake 200,000
Mortimer Lake 250,000
Reid Lake 250,000
Remi Lake 500,000
Unnamed lake — Fauquier
Tp 200,000
Wilson Lake 250,000
Frontenac:
Big Gull Lake 700,000
Bobs Lake 600,000
Clear Lake 200,000
Collins Bay 200,000
Cross Lake (Palmerston) . 700,000
Crotch Lake (Kennebec) . 100,000
Crow Lake 400,000
Elbow Lake 100,000
First Depot Lake 100,000
Horseshoe Lake 100,000
Little Mississagagon 100,000
Long Lake (Kennebec) . . 50,000
Long Lake (Clarendon) . 600,000
Long Lake (Portland) . . . 600,000
Long Lake (Hinchin-
brooke) 100,000
Mississagagon Lake 400,000
Mississippi Lake 750,000
Rideau Lake 500,000
Rock Lake 500,000
St. Lawrence River 250,000
Sharbot Lake 400,000
Sydenham Lake 250,000
Thompson Lake 100,000
Grenville:
Rideau River 1,500,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 250,000
Nottawasaga River 500,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 2,000,000
Haliburton:
Paudash Lake 1,200,000
Hastings:
Moira Lake 500,000
Moira River 750,000
Sears Lake 100,000
Stoco Lake 250,000
Kenora:
Black Sturgeon Lake .... 1,000,000
Eagle Lake 3,000,000
Lake of the Woods .... 42,985,000
Log Bay 1,750,000
Marchington Lake 1,000,000
Matheson Bay 4,800,000
Stanzikihimi Lake 1,000,000
Wabigoon Lake 1,000,000
Willard Lake 840,000
Kent:
Rondeau Bay 250,000
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April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
YELLOW PICKEREL (Pike-Perch)
— Continue<l
Lanark:
Black Lake 200,000
Christies Lake 200,000
Clear Lake 450,000
Fagan's Lake 100,000
Mississippi Lake 400,000
Otty Lake 200,000
Leeds:
Big Rideau Lake 700,000
Higley Lake 250,000
Killembeck Lake 250,000
Little Rideau Lake 150,000
Sand Lake 700,000
St. Lawrence River 1,000,000
Lennox-Addington :
Long Lake 400,000
Napanee River 2,000,000
South Beaver Lake 400,000
White Lake 400,000
Manitoulin:
Eraser Bay 2,000,000
Lake Helen 1,000,000
Linda Lake 500,000
MacGregor Bay, &
Bay Finn 4,000,000
Muskoka:
Allen's Lake 100,000
Bala Bay 500,000
Bass Lake 50,000
Brandy Lake 200,000
Buck Lake 200.000
Kahshe Lake 300,000
Lake Rosseau 1,300,000
Muskoka River 500,000
Musquash River 500,000
Six Mile Lake 500,000
Sparrow Lake *2, 000, 000
Three Mile Lake 500,000
Nipissing:
Bruce Lake 100,000
Finlayson Lake 100,000
Herridge Lake 100,000
Jumping Caribou Lake . . 250,000
Lake Chebogamog 100,000
Lake Nosbonsing 250,000
Lake Temagami 500,000
Marion Lake 250,000
Martin Lake 250,000
McPhee Lake 100,000
Olive Lake 100,000
Red Cedar Lake 250,000
Talon Lake 250,000
Tilden Lake 100,000
Tomiko Lake 250,000
Wickstead Lake 250,000
Wilson Lake 100,000
Wis-Wassie Lake 250,000
Norfolk:
Waterford, or Nanticoke
Creek 250,000
Northumberland :
Rice Lake 1,200,000
Trent River 3,250,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 250,000
Oxford:
Lakeside Lake 500,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 500,000
Bass Lake 150,000
Blackstone Lake 100,000
Burden Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 250,000
Commanda Lake 200,000
Crane Lake 200,000
Crawford Lake 100,000
Crooked Lake 250,000
Deer Lake 250,000
Doe Lake 300,000
French River 1,000,000
Horseshoe Lake 150,000
Isabella Lake 200,000
Jack's Lake 50,000
Lake Joseph 300,000
Lake Rosseau 1,000,000
Little Long Lake 100,000
Long Lake 250,000
Magnetawan River 500,000
Manitowaba Lake 150,000
McKeown Lake 100,000
Mill Lake 150,000
Otter Lake 300,000
Owl Lake 100,000
Pickerel River 150,000
Restoule Lake 200,000
Sequin River 250,000
Shawanaga Lake 250,000
Shebeshekong Lake 150,000
Shoal Lake 150,000
Stewart Lake 100,000
Stormy Lake 200,000
Whitestone Lake 250,000
Wolf River 250,000
Peterborough:
Little Lake 250,000
Otonabee River 1,200,000
Rice Lake 1,200,000
Trent River 600,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 5,200,000
Consecon Lake 600,000
East Lake 600,000
West Lake 500,000
Rainy River:
Beaverhouse Lake 2,000,000
Clearwater Lake 2,000,000
Off Lake 1,000,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
YELLOW PICKEREL (Pike-Perch)
— Continued
Rainy River — Continued
One Sided Lake 1,000,000
Quill Lake 2,000,000
Rainy Lake 65,000,000
Sabaskong Bay 3,000,000
Windigoostigwam Lake . . 1,000,000
Castor River 1,000,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 1,250,000
Little Lake 500,000
Sturgeon Bay 1,000,000
Stormont:
Nation River 500,000
St. Lawrence River 2,400,000
Sudbury:
Birch Lake 150,000
Charlton Lake 250,000
Cranberry Lake 500,000
Frood Lake 250,000
Ivanhoe Lake 250,000
Lacloche Lake 300,000
Lake Penage 3,000,000
Mattagamasi Lake 200,000
McLaren Lake 300,000
Ramsay Lake 1,000,000
Wanapitei Lake 1,000,000
Whitefish Falls Bay &
River 5,000,000
Wolseley Bay 500,000
Unnamed Lake 200,000
Thunder Bay:
Baril Lake 1,000,000
Cordingley Lake 500,000
Lake of Flats 200,000
Lake Shebandowan 2,000,000
Savant Lake 1,000,000
Thunder Bay 1,500,000
Timiskaming:
Granite Lake 250,000
Lady Evelyn Lake 2 50,000
Lake Timagami 500.000
Lake Timiskaming 500,000
Net Lake 250,000
Rib Lake 200,000
Sesekinika Lake 500,000
Twin Lake 250,000
Victoria:
Lake Dalrymple 500,000
Young's Lake 250,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 1,000,000
North Channel 4,000,000
Lake Huron 22,750,000
Lake Ontario 750,000
*Eyed eggs supplied, and planted as fry
from Sparrow Lake hatchery.
BLUE PICKEREL
FRY
Essex:
Lake Erie 1,000,000
BROWN TROUT
YEARLINGS
Brant:
Branch Creek 1,000
Whiteman's Creek 1,000
Bruce:
Crane River 1,200
Saugeen River 2,300
Sucker Creek 1,000
Vogt's Creek 1,500
Carleton:
Mississippi River 3,000
Rideau River 1,200
Durham:
Baldwin Creek 1,200
Baxter Creek 1,500
Cavan Stream 2,400
Elgin:
Big Creek 2,200
Little Otter 4,000
Frontenac:
Clyde River 1,500
Grey:
Big Head River 3,000
Maxwell's Creek 1,200
Potawatami River 1,000
Saugeen River 8,000
Styx River 3,000
Sydenham River 3,900
Weatherspoon Creek .... 500
Haldimand:
Rogers Creek 1,006
Halton:
Bronte River 2,200
Hastings:
Beaver Creek 1,000
Black Creek 1,200
Little Mississippi River . . 1,200
Rawdon Creek 2,000
Huron:
Nine Mile River 1,100
Lanark:
Mississippi River 3,000
Middlesex:
Medway Creek 1,200
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April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
BROWN TROUT — Continued
Muskoka:
Indian River 1,200
Kahshe River 800
Norfolk:
Big Creek 1,000
Nanticoke Creek 1,500
Northumberland :
Bowens Pond 1,200
Glenfurnte Stream 4,600
Oxford:
Horner's Creek 600
Whiteman Creek 1,500
Perth :
Halfway Stream 1,100
Upper Avon River 1,100
Peterborough:
Deer Bay Creek 3,000
Dickson's Creek 1,500
Eel's Creek 1,000
Lower Cavan Creek 600
Mississauga River 1,500
Nogies Creek 1,500
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga River and
tributaries 6,874
Waterloo:
Alderside Pond 600
Bridgeport Dam 500
Dentinger Creek 1,000
Wellington:
Gerrie Creek 600
Speed River 1,200
York:
Humber River 3,000
Private waters (Sale) ... 510
LAK£ TROUT
FRY
Frontenac:
Buckshot Lake 20,000
Crotch Lake 25,000
Crow Lake 25,000
Desert Lake 15,000
Dog Lake 20,000
Grindstone Lake 10,000
Knowlton Lake 10,000
Long Lake 15,000
Loughborough Lake 45,000
Mackie Lake 10,000
Mississagagon Lake 15,000
Reid's Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 5,000
Schooner Lake 15,000
Sharbot Lake 25,000
Wolf Lake 10,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 35,000
Bass Lake 10,000
Big Salmon Lake 25,000
Cedar Lake 10,000
Devil Lake 10,000
Dickey Lake 20,000
Eagle Lake 10,000
Gunter Lake 10,000
Jamieson Lake 10,000
Johns Lake 10,000
Lake Papineau 25,000
Lake St. Peter 25,000
L'Amable Lake 10,000
Little Bass Lake 10,000
Little Salmon Lake 10,000
Little Weslemkoon Lake . 10,000
Long Lake (Mayo) 10,000
Long Lake (Dungannon) .' 10,000
Quinlan Lake 10,000
Wadsworth Lake 10,000
Weslemkoon Lake 15,000
Lanark:
Silver Lake 15,000
Leeds:
Big Rideau Lake 50,000
Charleston Lake 60,000
Clear Lake 10,000
Indian Lake 10,000
Red Horse Lake 15,000
Lennox-Addington :
Bark Lake 10,000
Big Lake 20,000
Burns Lake 10,000
Finch Lake 10,000
Little Cedar Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 30,000
Mazinaw Lake 5,000
Otter Lake 20,000
Spring Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Catchacoma Lake 10,000
Gull Lake 10,000
Jack's Lake 25,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 20,000
Sandy Lake 10,000
Towens Lake 5,000
Trout Lake 10,000
West Lake 5,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 1,800,000
North Channel 550,000
Lake Huron 1,000,000
Lake Ontario 357,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
LAKE TROUT — Continued
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 6,000
Axe Lake 11,000
Basswood Lake 6,000
Chiblow Lake 6,000
Clear Lake 18,000
Constin, or Trout Lake . . 6,000
Cumming Lake 6,000
Duborne Lake 6,000
Grev Trout Lake 6,000
Havilah Lake 6,000
Hawk Lake 5,750
Hobon Lake 5,750
Huston Lake 10,750
Island Lake . 6,000
Long Lake 6,000
Loon Lake (Deroche) . . . 6,000
Loon Lake (Borden) .... 6,000
Matinenda Lake 6,000
Mud Lake 6,000
Patton Lake 6,000
Petanguin Lake 6,000
Pickerel Lake . 6,000
Rainbow Lake 6,000
Rand Lake 6,000
Raw Hide Lake 6,000
Red Deer Lake 6,000
Sand Lake 6,000
Stuart Lake 6,000
Tookenay Lake 6,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) .... 6,000
Trout Lake (24-12) 6,000
Upper Island Lake 6,000
Bruce:
Dyer Bay 15,000
Gillies Lake 15,000
Cochrane:
Nellie Lake 6,000
Perry Lake 6,000
Watabeag Lake 6,000
Frontenac:
Crotch Lake 5,000
Desert Lake 5,000
Dog Lake 5,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
Loughborough Lake 5,000
Lucky Lake 10,000
Sharbot Lake 5,000
Haliburton:
Bear Lake (Guilford) . . . 5,000
Bear Lake (Glamorgan) . 5,000
Big Boskung Lake 10,000
Davis Lake 5,000
Deer Lake 5,000
Drag Lake 10,000
Eagle Lake 10,000
East Lake 5,000
Gull Lake 10,000
Haliburton Lake 10,000
Hawke Lake 5,000
Hollow Lake 10,000
Horseshoe Lake 5,000
Hurricane Lake 5,000
Kashagawigamog Lake . . . 5,000
Kingscote Lake 5,000
Kushog Lake 10,000
Little Boskung Lake 5,000
Long Lake 5,000
Maple Lake 5,000
Moose Lake 5,000
Mountain Lake 5,000
Oblong Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Redstone Lake 10,000
Ross's Lake . 5,000
South Bay 5,000
Stormy Lake 5,000
Twelve Mile Lake 5,000
Hastings:
Clear Lake 5,000
Lake of Islands 5,000
LaValley Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Lutterworth) 5,000
Papineau Lake 5,000
Robinson Lake 5,000
Trout Lake (Faraday) . . 5,000
Kenora:
Bigstone Bay 40,000
Blue Lake 25,000
Boulder Dam 50,000
Clearwater Bay 90,000
Cul de Sac Lake 25,000
Dogtooth Lake 50,000
Eagle Lake 100,000
Gibbi Lake 50,000
Granite Lake 25,000
Lake of the Woods 72,000
Little Vermilion Lake . . . 50,000
Rice Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 25,000
Thunder Lake 25,000
Trout Lake 25,000
Whitefish Bay 90,000
Willard Lake 35,000
Lanark:
Rideau Lake 2,000
Lennox-Addington :
Thirty Island Lake 5,000
White Lake 2,000
Manitoulin:
Fraser Bay 25,000
Lake Manitou 33,000
Muskoka:
Bala Bay 15,000
Bella Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Fairy Lake & tributaries . 5,000
Lake of Bays &
tributaries 28,000
Long Lake 5,000
Muskoka Lake 15,000
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
LAKE TROUT — Continued
Muskoka — Continued
Oxtongue Lake 5,000
Peninsula Lake &
tributaries 15,000
Rebecca Lake 5,000
Rosseau Lake 27,000
Skeleton Lake 10,000
Trout Lake (Watt) 5,000
Vernon Lake 15,000
Waseosa Lake 5,000
Nipissing:
Aylen Lake 5,000
Martin Lake 6,000
Red Cedar Lake 6,000
Source Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 6,000
Parry Sound:
Bay Lake 10,000
Bella Lake (Ferguson) . . 5,000
Bernard Lake 10,000
Big Clam Lake 5,000
Clear Lake (Humphrey) . 7,500
Clear Lake (Perry) 10,000
Five Mile Bay 2,000
Horn Lake 15,000
Lake Joseph 5,000
Lorimer Lake 15,000
Maple Lake 10,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Portage Lake 5,000
Round Lake 5,000
Salmon Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 10,000
Spring Lake 10,000
Sucker Lake 5,000
Sugar Lake 10,000
Tea Lake 5,000
Three Legged Lake 10,000
Whitefish Lake 7,500
Renfrew:
Bark Lake 6,000
Blacknsh Bay 5,000
Bradley Lake 10,000
Carson Lake 6,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Cross Lake 6,000
Diamond Lake 5,000
Kaminiskeg Lake 5,000
Long Lake 5,000
Pog Lake 6,000
Round Lake 6,000
Trout Lake 6,000
Wadsworth Lake 6,000
Simcoe:
Kempenfeldt Bay 20,000
Sudbury:
Ella Lake 6,000
Long Lake (Broder) .... 6,000
Long Lake (Harrow) .... 6,000
Nelson Lake 6,000
Penage Lake 6,000
Ramsay Lake 6,000
Trout Lake 6,000
Wanapitae Lake 6.000
Windy Lake 6,000
Thunder Bay:
Baril Bay 50,000
Brown Lake 50,000
Jarvis Bay 50,000
Lac Des Mille Lacs 50,000
Lake Nipigon 50,000
McKenzie Lake 50,000
Surprise Lake 10,000
Twin Lakes 50,000
Wawon Lake 25,000
Timiskaming:
Bartle Lake 6,000
Lake Timagami 6,000
Lake Timiskaming 6,000
Net Lake 6,000
Rib Lake 6,000
Trout Lake 6,000
Twin Lake 6,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 40,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 3,675,000
North Channel 250,000
Georgian Bay 3.933,000
Lake Huron 5,501,100
Lake Ontario 50,000
EYED EGGS
Exchange 3,225,000
ATLANTIC SALMON
FRY
For demonstration purposes
7.200
KAMLOOPS TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Bruce:
Gillies Lake 20,000
Grey:
Bass Lake 20,000
Muskoka:
Echo Lake 20,000
Waseosa Lake 20,000
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Clear Lake 5,000
Garden River 5,000
Mississagi River 5,000
St. Mary River 2,000
White River 6,440
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
35
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
RAINBOW TROUT — Continued
Bruce:
Sauble River 10,000
Dufferin:
Nottawasaga River 7,000
Elgin:
St. Thomas City Reservoir 5,000
Grey:
Sheppard's Lake 10,600
Haliburton:
Burnt Lake 5,000
McFadden's Lake 5,000
Muskoka:
Indian River 7,000
Long Lake 3,000
Norfolk:
Patterson's Creek 3,000
Simcoe:
Coldwater River 3,600
Kempenfeldt Bay 7,000
Sturgeon River 3,600
Sudbury:
Unnamed lake 4,000
York:
Humber River 5,000
Private Waters (Sale) ... 3,000
SPECKLED TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Aubinadong Lake 8,500
Batchewana River 5,000
Big Bear Lake 10,000
Blue Lake 15,000
Camp 12 Lake 8,500
Canoe Lake 10,000
Caribou Lake 15,000
Carp River 3,000
Chippewa River 5,000
Christman Lake 5,000
Deer Lake 4,000
Horseshoe Lake 1,500
Iron River 3,000
Island Lake (176) 4,000
Jobammeghia Lake 2,000
Kashawong Lake 3,000
Kawagama River 4,000
Laughing Lake 7,000
Loon Lake (Deroche) . . . 7,000
Lower Island Lake 1,600
Mashagami Lake 10,000
Moose Lake 400
Pancake River 5,000
Quinn Lake 100
Ranger Lake 8,500
Reserve Lake 10,000
Root River 2,400
Saddle Lake 1,000
Speckled Trout Lake (176) 1,000
Speckled Trout Creek .... 600
Trout Lake (Aweres) .... 2,000
Twin Lake 7,000
Upper Island Lake 1,600
Wartz Lake 5,000
Weashkog Lake 10,000
White River 8,000
Cochrane:
Charlebois Lake 500
Croft Creek 600
Dalton's Lake 500
Dandurand Creek 800
Fuller Creek 500
Grassy River 500
Lake of Bays 800
Legare Creek 800
Mclntyre Lake 500
Metagami River 500
Ramsbottom Creek 500
Red Sucker River 500
Rowley Lake 800
Shaw's Creek 400
Waterhen Creek 500
Wealthy Creek 500
Norfolk:
Vittoria Creek 100
Renfrew:
Nadeau Creek 175
Thunder Bay:
Allen Lake 6,000
Blend River 8,000
Cedar Creek 11,000
Cummings Lake 12,Q00
Current River 24,000
Hilma Lake 2,000
Johnston Lake 2,000
Kaministiquia River 10,000
Lenora Lake 6,000
Lesage Lake 5,000
Lower Pass Lake 4,500
Mclntyre River 10,000
McKenzie River 9,000
Mount Stephen Lake .... 6,000
Neebing River 12,000
North Enders I^ake 6,000
Ozone Waters 12,000
Partridge Lake 5,000
Pitch Creek 14,000
Trout Creek 12,000
Whitewood Creek 3,000
Timiskaming:
Small Spot Creek 800
Private waters (Sale) ... 250
YEARLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 2,000
Achigan Creek 3,000
Agawa River 1,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPB("KLED TROUT — Continued
Algoma — Continued
Alva Lake 1,000
Anjigami Creek 2,000
Appleby Lake 2,000
Arnill Lake 1,500
Aubinadong Lake 1,000
Aweres Lake 4,000
Bamagesic Lake 2,000
Basswood Lake 2,000
Batchewana River 8,000
Bellevue Creek 1,500
Boyles Creek 2,000
Bridgeland River 4,000
Burrows Lake 2,000
Caldwell Lake 500
Camp Lake 1,500
Camp 8 Creek 1,000
Capp Lake 1,000
Caribou Lake 2,000
Chiblow Lake 2,000
Chippewa River 4,000
Chub Lake 4,000
Clear Lake (Aweres) .... 2,000
Clear Lake Creek ( Scarf e) 1,000
Corston Lake 1,500
Dam Creek 1,000
Dam Lake 4,000
Deer Lake 2,000
Devil Lake 1,000
Diamond Lake 3,000
Driving Creek 3,000
Emerald Lake 1,500
Foot Lake 2,000
Franklin Lake 1,500
Garden Lake 1,000
Garden River 7,000
Goodwin Lake 2,000
Goulais River 3,000
Green Lake 1,500
Harmony River 1,500
Hawk Lake 2,000
Hoath, or Heydon Lake . . 1,000
Hobon Lake 2,000
Hubert Lake 2,000
Island Lake (Aberdeen) . . 1,500
Island Lake (176) 2,000
Jobammeghia Lake 3,200
Kennedy Lake 1,500
Kinoch Lake 1,500
Laughing Lake 3,000
Little Blind River 1,000
Little White River 5,000
Lonely Lake 2,000
Long Lake ( Jarvis) 1,000
Long Lake (Meredith) .. 3,000
Loon Lake (Deroche) . . . 3,000
Loon Lake (24 R.13) 2,000
Loon Lake (Kirkwood) . . 4,000
Loonskin Lake 2,000
Lower Island Lake 7,000
Mashagami Lake 1,500
McCormick Lake 4,000
McCrea Lake 1,500
McGill Creek 1,000
McGrath Creek 2,000
McKinnon Creek 1,500
McVeigh Creek 1,500
Michipicoten River
6,000
Mile 58 Lake
1,000
Miltelm Lake
1,000
Mongoose Lake
2,000
Moose Lake (25 R.13) . . .
2,000
Mountain Lake
500
Mud Lake
2,500
Ned's Lake
1,500
Patton Lake
2,000
Pine Lake (24-R-13)
2,000
Pine Lake (U.)
500
Pine Lake (25-R-ll), or
Prugh
2,000
Pinkney Lake
1,000
Rand Lake
2.000
Ranger Lake
1,500
Reserve Dam Creek
1,000
Richardson Creek
1,500
Rock Lake
1,000
Root River
7,000
Round Lake (Grassett) . .
1,500
Round Lake (1 A.)
500
St. Mary River
1,000
Sand Lake Creek
2,000
Sand River
2,000
Sausabic Lake .
1,500
Scarbo Lake
1,000
Silver Creek .
7,000
Sister Lake No. 1
500
Sister Lake No. 2
500
Speckled Trout Lake
(1 A.)
2,000
Speckled Trout Lake
(176)
1,500
Speckled Trout Lake
(28-R-16)
500
Spruce Lake
1,500
Sucker Lake
2,000
Summit Lake
2,000
Tamarack Lake
500
Tawabinasay Lake
2,000
Tea Lake
2,500
Triple Lake
1.000
Trout Lake (62)
2,000
Trout Lake (167)
1,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) . . .
3,000
Trout Lake Inlet
500
Twin Lakes
5,000
Two Tree River
1,500
Upper Island Lake
7.000
Wallace Lake
500
Wartz Lake
2.000
Waterhole Lake
2,000
Wawa Lake
2,000
White River
1.000
Whitehead's Creek
1.500
Brant:
Moody and Lyons Creek
Bruce:
Big Bay Swamp
Colpoy Creek
French Bay Creek . . . .
Hill's Spring
Judge's Creek
Nine Mile River
Pettigrew Spring
Sauble River
200
300
450
450
450
900
800
450
900
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
37
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Bruce — Continued
Sharp's Spring
Silver Creek
Spring Creek (Amabel)
Spring Creek (Carrick)
Stream entering into
Paddis Bay
Tucker's Spring
Vance's Creek
Willow Creek
Wilson Creek
Cochrane:
Liniment Lake
Morgan Lake
Sesekinika Creek
Dufferin:
Boyle's Creek ,
Cemetery Creek
Credit River
Grand River
Nottawasaga River . . .
Pine River ,
Sanderson Creek ,
Durham:
Ard's Creek
Austim's Creek
Barton's Creek
Beatty Creek
Brook's Creek
Burk's Pond ,
Cain's Stream
Carscadden Creek . . .
Cowper's Creek ,
DeLong's Stream
Drew's Creek
Goodman's Creek
Graham's Creek ,
Harris Creek . ,
Hayden's Creek
Luxton Creek
McKindley's Creek , . . ,
McLaughlin's Creek . . .
Mercer's Creek
Miller Creek
Muldrew's Creek ,
Orono Park Pond . . , . ,
Patterson's Creek . , . .
Patton's Stream
Powell's Creek
Quantreuil's Creek . . . .
Rowe's Pond
Sowden's Creek
Sowper's Creek
Stream at Manvers . . . .
Strong's Creek ,
Thompson's Creek . . . ,
Elgin:
Ball Creek
Bassell Creek
Beaver Creek
Buck Creek ,
Campbell Creek
Clear Creek
1,350
1,000
1,800
900
200
900
450
800
450
150
150
200
500
200
3,100
1,800
2,700
1,800
200
200
500
100
200
500
1,000
1,400
200
200
400
200
500
100
200
2,500
500
1,000
500
200
500
100
500
500
100
200
200
200
200
200
1,500
100
200
1,500
500
500
250
500
3,000
Deer Creek 500
Eckert Creek 500
Godwillie Creek 500
Grange Hall Creek 500
Howey Creek 500
Leitch Creek 500
Matthews Creek 500
Sisken Creek 500
Venison Creek 3,000
Wolfe Creek 500
Frontenac:
Black Creek 2,400
Camp Lake 2,400
Grindstone Lake 4,800
Knowlton Lake 500
Lucky Lake 250
Sharbot Creek 250
Spring Creek entering
Buckshot Lake ..... 500
Trout Lake 500
Grey:
Beatty Saugeen River .... 3,600
Beaver River 7,800
Beirness Stream 250
Bell's Lake 2,700
Big Head River 1,800
Boyd's Lake 1,800
Boyne River 2,700
Caseman Creek 900
Christies Creek 1,800
Cook's Creek 500
Deer Creek 1,800
English Lake 2,700
Esplen Pond 900
Eugenia Pond 7,400
Ewart's Lake 1,800
Fairbairn Creek 1,800
Ferguson Creek 1,800
Finn's Creek 450
Firth's Creek 2,400
Glen Creek 2,700
Grand River 500
Lawrence Creek 1,350
Manx Creek 900
McCartney's Lake 1,800
McConnell Creek 1,000
Meino Creek 1,800
Miller Creek 1,000
Mitchell's Mill Stream . . . 1,800
Mountain Lake 500
Munshaw Lake 1,800
Nigger Creek 2,500
Oxenden Creek 3,000
Pearce Creek 250
Penner's Creek 450
Riley Creek 250
Rob Roy Creek 1,800
Saugeen River 5,400
Spey River 2,700
Sulphur Springs 200
Sydenham River 3,100
Unnamed Creek
(Egremont) 900
Wilcox Lake 900
Williams Spring 3,700
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Haliburton:
Bear Lake (Livingstone)
Bitter Lake
Blue Lake
Burnt River
Catchacoma Lake
Diamond Lake
Drag River
Eagle Lake
Fletcher Lake
Glidden Creek
Holland Creek ,
Hollow Lake
Hurricane Lake
Kimball Lake
Millichamp Lake
Moon's Creek
Oblong River
Otter Lake
Partridge Lake
Poverty Lake
Raven Lake
Redstone River
Round Lake
Slipper Lake
Halton:
Crawford Lake
Hastings:
Alexander Creek
Bartlett Creek
Brett's Lake
Carleton Creek
Cedar Creek
Deer River
Diamond Lake
East Lake
Echo Lake
Egan Creek
Foster's Lake
Eraser's Creek
Geen's Creek
Gin Creek
Hinze's Lake
Horse Lake . .
Little Mississippi Lake .
Little Papineau Lake . .
McCormick Lake
Mud Turtle Lake
Nobs Lake
Peel's Lake
Rawdon Creek
Shaw Lake
Shire Creek
Spurr Lake
Squire's Creek
Vanderbeck Lake
Waterhouse Lake
York River
Huron:
Patterson's Creek
Porter's Creek
St. Helen's Creek
Wilson's Creek
250
250
250
1,200
600
400
750
500
2,950
900
250
2,700
500
250
900
1,200
1,400
900
250
900
1,800
500
250
250
900
1,000
4,400
3,400
500
4,800
2,000
1,000
500
4,800
3,400
500
1,500
1,500
500
2,400
500
500
1,200
3,600
500
500
1,000
4,800
500
3,400
1,400
4,800
4,800
4,800
500
3,000
1,500
250
900
Kenora:
Raleigh Creek
Lanark:
Clyde River
Paul's Creek
Lennox-Addington:
Beaver Creek
Big Lake
Burns Lake
Graham's Lake
Green Lake
Hyde's Creek
Little Long Lake ....
Rainy Lake
Rock Lake
Ruttan's Lake
Shiner Lake Creek . . .
Smith's Lake
Snake Creek
Thirty Island Creek . .
Unnamed stream
(Denbigh)
White Lake
Yeoman's Creek
Manitoulin:
Blue Jay Creek
Harris Creek
Mindemoya River . . . .
Middlesex:
Cody Creek
Stream — C.13 lot 31
London Tp
Wye Creek
Muskoka:
Big East River
Bigwind Lake
Bird Lake
Black Creek
Boyne Creek
Clear Lake (Sinclair)
Clear Lake (Oakley) .
Creeks running into
Fairy Lake
Creeks running into
Peninsula Lake . .
Creeks running into
Muskoka River
Creeks running into
Vernon Lake . . .
Eastails Lake
Echo Lake
Fox Lake
Eraser's Lake
High Lake
Jessups Creek
Lake Joseph
Lake of Bays
Lake Rosseau .......
Little Clear Lake . . . .
Little East River
Long Lake (Cardwell)
Long Lake (Franklin)
1,500
4,800
4,800
4,800
2,400
250
2,400
1,000
4,800
250
2,400
250
2,400
250
250
500
250
250
250
250
1,500
1,500
1,500
2,190
500
1,000
9,000
900
900
2,000
2,000
1,200
900
4,000
4,000
6,000
4,000
900
2,700
3,000
900
900
2,000
2,800
5,400
2,000
600
3,000
1,105
900
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 37-38
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPECKLrED TROUT — Continuetl
Muskoka — Continued
Long Lake (Ridout)
Loon Lake
Loon Lake Creek . .
Martin Lake
McReynold's Lake .
Monahan Lake . . . .
Muskoka Lake
Muskoka River ....
Oxtongue Lake ....
Oxtongue River . . .
Pine Lake
Poverty Lake
Rebecca Lake
Rill Lake
Shoe Lake
Skeleton Lake ....
Split Rock Lake . . .
Tooke's Lake
Wolf Lake
Ni pissing:
Boat Lake
Bourdeaux Lake
Cedar Lake
Clear Lake (Lyell)
Clear Lake (Gooderham) .
Crooked Lake
Frog Lake
Gorge Lake
Hoover's Lake
Little Madawaska River . .
Little Tyne River
Long Lake
Magnetawan River
McNorton Lake
Montreauil Lake
Nelson's Lake
North River
Red Rock Lake
Rocky Lake
Rowan Lake
Unnamed stream running
into McPhee Lake . .
White Lake
Norfolk:
Big Creek
Forestville Creek
Hay Creek . . . .
Kent Creek . . . .
Nanticoke Creek
Vittoria Creek . .
Winter's Creek .
Northumberland:
Big Creek
Biltmore Creek .
Black's Creek . . ,
Burnley Creek . . ,
Chidley's Creek .
Dartford Creek . ,
Dawson's Creek .
DeLong's Creek
Duncan's Creek
Heffernan's Creek
Little Cole Creek
900
900
350
900
900
900
1,500
3,000
900
3,000
900
900
1,350
1,055
900
2,500
900
1,055
900
600
300
250
500
500
100
500
100
900
500
100
600
200
800
500
900
1,000
200
500
150
500
150
1,500
1,250
1,150
1,500
1,250
10
1,100
500
3,000
3,000
6,000
100
3,000
1,500
500
1.500
1,000
1,000
Mayhew's Creek .
O'Grady's Creek .
Pegnan's Creek .
Piper's Creek . . .
Quinn's Creek . , .
Robin's Creek , . .
Sandy Flats Creek
Spring Creek . . .
Taylor's Creek . .
Trout Creek ....
Valleau Creek . . .
Ontario:
Black Creek
Electric Light Pond
Elgin Park Pond . ,
Parry Sound:
Barrett's Creek
Bear Lake
Beatty Creek
Begsboro Creek ....
Big Clam Lake
Birch Lake
Black Creek (Strong)
Black Creek (Gurd)
Cashman's Creek ....
Clear Lake
(S. Himsworth)
Clear Lake (Perry) .
Clear Lake (Wilson)
Clear Lake (Armour)
Commanda Creek . . .
Compass Lake
Cummings Lake ....
Deer River (Lount) .
Distress River
Dunkers Creek
Eagle Lake
Genesee Creek
Home Lake
James Creek
King Lake
Little Lake
Little East River ....
Little Pickerel River
Long Lake
Lynx Lake
Magnetawan River . .
Owl Lake
Pine Lake
Ragged Creek
Rat Lake
Reasin Lake
Rock Lake
Russell's Creek ....
Ryan's Creek
Shadow River
Shell's Lake
South River
Stellar Creek
Stirling River
Stoney Lake
Three Mile Lake . . .
Trout Creek
Tug-of-War Creek . .
500
1,500
2,000
100
1,000
200
2,000
300
500
3,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
1,000
200
1,250
2,500
200
1,250
2,500
1,250
200
500
1,800
125
200
2,500
360
250
450
1,250
1,250
125
3,000
200
360
125
100
900
125
900
400
4,310
200
100
360
360
'200
200
1,250
400
1,200
100
2,500
1,250
1,000
500
200
1,350
200
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Peel:
Caledon Lake
Credit River
Temple Stream
Perth:
Avon River
Peterborough:
Big Ouse River
Buchanan Creek
Cavan Stream
Little Ouse
Mount Pleasant
Trennum's Creek
Renfrew:
Battery Lake
Black Lake
Carson Lake
Colton Lake
Dam Lake
Eady's Lake
Foy's Creek
Godin's Lake
Johnson Lake
Loche Lake, or
Goshen Creek
Long Lake
MacKay Creek
Nadeau Creek
Paddy's Lake
Rock Lake
Round Lake
Schooner Lake
Smith Lake
Snake Lake
Spring Creek
Trout Lake
Turner Creek
Wylie Creek
Simcoe:
Black Creek
Boyne River
Corbett Creek
Greenlaw Pond
Mathewson's Creek
Sheldon Creek
Silver Creek
Sturgeon River
Tenth Creek
Willow Creek
Sudbury:
Bertrand Creek
Ella Lake
Pumphouse Creek
Sauble River
Shiner Lake
Thunder Bay:
Allen Creek
Anderson Creek
Anderson Lake (McTavish)
1,000
1,900
500
3,000
5,000
1,000
3,000
6,000
1,000
1,500
1,000
500
1,000
500
1,000
500
1,000
500
1.250
2,000
1,250
1,200
700
2,500
500
500
1,250
500
1,250
1,000
1,000
170
1,800
300
1,200
1,800
100
1,200
3,000
2,000
7,000
500
1,200
1,200
1,050
1,000
1,500
1,000
1,000
1,500
1,462
Anderson Lake
(St. Ignace) 1,500
Arrow River 2,000
Bass Creek 4,000
Bat Lake 2,000
Beaver Lake 2,000
Bertha Lake 1,000
Big Duck River 4,000
Big MacKenzie River .... 14,000
Boulevard Lake 3,000
Bruley Creek 7,000
Camp Lake 4,000
Cedar Creek 11,000
Centre Lake 1,000
Coldwater River 3,000
Corbett Creek 5,000
Cousineau Lake 1,000
Crockers Lake 1,500
Current River 14,000
Deception Lake 7,000
Echo Lake 3,000
Fall Lake 3,000
Fawn Lake 1,500
Five Mile Lake 1,500
Fog Lake 2,000
High Bluff Lake 500
Hogan Lake 1,500
Kaministiquia River 7,000
Kowkash River 1,500
Langley's Lake 2,500
Little MacKenzie River . . 2,000
Little Lake 1,000
Little Whitefish River . . . 2,000
Loftquist Lake 14,000
Loon Creek 1,500
Loon Lake 3,000
Loon River 5,000
Lower Pearl River 2,000
Lower Hunter Lake 1,500
Mac's Lake 1,000
Maxwell Creek 1,500
Mclntyre River 7,000
McGregor Lake 1,000
McVicar Creek 3,000
Mirror Lake 1,500
Missed Lake 1,500
Moose Lake
(near Rossport) .... 1,500
Moose Lake
(McTavish Tp.) 3,000
Morgan Creek 1,500
Neebing River 7,000
Nipigon River 28,000
Oliver Lake 7,000
Paquette Lake 2,500
Pass Lake 7,000
Paysplatt River 3,000
Pearl River 2,000
Pickerel Lake 2,500
Pitch Creek 7,000
Raft Lake 2,000
Randolph Creek 500
Rock Lake 1,500
Rock River , 5,000
Round Lake 1,000
Samec Lake 1,000
Sand Lake 2,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-88
41
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Thunder Bay — Continued
Sand Lake (near
Schreiber) 1.500
Silver Lake '^OO
Silver Islet Creek 1,
Skillen Lake 2,000
Spectacle Lake 2,000
Spring Creek (Dorion) . . 2,000
Spring Creek No. 1 2,500
Spring Creek No. 2 2,500
Spring Lake (Adrian) . . . 1,000
Squaw Creek 4,000
Trap Lake 1,000
Trout Lake (Gorham) . . . 7,000
Trout Lake (Stirling) . . . 12,500
Upper Hunter Lake 1,500
Upper Pearl Lake 2,000
Wanogi Lake Creek 7,000
Walker Lake 2,000
Welch Lake 1,000
White Sand Creek 6,500
Whitewood Creek 7,000
Wideman Lake 1,500
Wolf River 3,000
Timiskaming:
Bartle Lake 500
Belle Isle Lake 500
Crystal Lake 1,000
Fairy Lake 1,500
Gleason Creek 500
Halfway Lake 400
Hooker Creek 400
Jean Baptiste Lake 500
Lake Timagami 2,500
Little Otter Lake 500
Moffatt Creek 500
Munro Lake 400
Pike Creek 1,250
South Wabi Lake 500
Spring Creek 1,250
Trout Creek 500
Ward Creek 500
Watabeag River 500
Welcome Creek 500
Whitney Lake 500
Victoria:
Corbin's Creek 100
Waterloo:
Flora Stream 1,500
Erbsville Creek 3,000
Idyle Wild Stream 300
Mannheim Stream 3,000
Welland:
Effingham Stream 1,500
Sulphur Springs 1,500
Wellington:
Bell's Creek 3,000
Bunyan Creek 2,400
Esson Creek 500
O'Dwyer's Creek 700
Saugeen River 3,000
W^entworth :
Spencer Creek 4,000
Twelve Mile Creek 800
York:
Doan's Pond 500
Private waters —
Sale and demonstration 8,626
ADULTS
Algoma:
Batchewana River 250
Harmony River 250
Heydon Lake 500
Island Lake (Aweres) . . . 330
Lower Island Lake 800
Root River 690
Trout Lake (Aweres) .... 700
Grey:
Woodland Spring 200
Thunder Bay:
Bass Creek 800
Bruley Creek 1,000
Coldwater River 1,000
Current River 1,500
Kaministiquia River .... 800
Loon Lake 781
Lower Pass Lake 900
Mattawin River 800
Neebing River 800
Pearl River 900
Pitch Creek 1,000
Spring Creek (Dorion) . . 145
Trout Lake (Gorham) . . . 800
Trout Lake (Stirling) 800
Private waters (Sale and
demonstration) 404
WHITEFISH
FRY
Hastings:
Bay of Quinte 12,000,000
Kenora:
Eagle Lake 1,000,000
Lake of the Woods 32,132,500
Marchington Lake 250,000
Separation Lake 500,000
Stanzihikimi Lake 250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 39,000,000
Rainy River:
Rainy Lake 10,260,000
Thunder Bay:
Nipigon Lake 225,000
42 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES Nq^ 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1937, to March 31st, 1938 — Continued
WHITEFISH — Continued
York:
Lake Couchiching 1,400,000
Lake Simcoe 2,200,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 725,000
North Channel 4,291,400
Georgian Bay 46,240,000
Lake Erie 139,000,000
Lake Huron 20,210,000
Lake Ontario 74,000,000
EYED EGGS
Exchange 4,000,000
HERRIXG
FRY
Frontenac:
Palmerston Lake 250,000
Lennox-Addington :
Weslemkoon Lake 250,000
Peterborough:
Loon Lake 250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 1,100,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 470,000
Lake Ontario 2,800,000
Miscellaneous:
Demonstration Purposes . 150,000
EYED EGGS
Demonstration purposes . 30,000
MISCELLANEOUS
Demonstration purposes . 3,053
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 37-38
43
APPENDIX No. 2
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES — 1933 TO 1937, INCLUSIVE
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinonge — Fry
Perch — Fry
Pickerel — Eyed Eggs
(Yellow) Fry
Pickerel (Blue) Fry
Brown Trout — Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Lake Trout — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Landlocked Salmon (Ouananiche)
(Yearlings)
Atlantic Salmon Fry
Rainbow Trout — Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Kamloops Trout — Fingerlings . . .
Yearlings
Speckled Trout— Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yeailings
Adults
"Whitefish— Fry
Eyed Eggs
Herring— Fry
Eyed Eggs
Golden Shiners ,
Miscellaneous
TOTALS
545,000
25,750
3.471
20,500.000
483,016
674
200,000
1,400,000
16,012,700
27. OK
506,000
725.000
5,950,255
28.237
1.549
372,111.000
22,805,000
55,250
4,250
197
55,500
55,750
420
441.325,524
909,500
95,000,000
5.000,000
278,470,000
138,000
14,500
689
402,000
1,265,000
14.045,450
1,000
4,480
312,512
25,014
6,257,267
34,762
1,652
376.777.000
17.512,000
7,000
796,619,193
130,000
2,153
27*
696,000
153.065
3,433
460,000
53,031,400
2,000,000
229,629,000
109,000
9,650
7,773.034
14,564,000
13,640
134,075
314
85.464
10.796
1.645,000
5,013.831
35.421
5,420
296.482,000
43.760,000
655. 747.231**
45.000
780.000
69.380
5,202
274,000
46,080,000
2,000,000
300,759,500
147,050
7,290
3,209,400
4,165,000
18.253,244
133.000
3,507
28,600
182.000
1.053,050
557.270
6.081
428.402.000
112.500
56.120.000
862,401,472
135,000
4,120
92
1.275.000
141.900
5.893
420.700
9,150.000
2.000.000
263.743.400
1.000.000
97,484
3,225,000
4,667,000
15,782,350
7,200
105,240
80,000
384,725
1.167.073
16.150
383.683.900
4.000.000
5.270.000
30.000
3,053
696.395.280
* Exhibition fish
*♦ This total does not include a distribution of 132.646,600 fry and eyed eggs during the five months
immediately preceding the said report.
44
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
Gasoline
Launches
Sail and
Row Boats
Gill Nets
No.
Tons
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
666 H
50
239
219
377
463
$ 17,500
50,000
65,300
99.638
136,695
148
118
58
161
144
44
177
226
16
$ 72,140
52.350
32,975
108,447
96,180
11,266
203,995
108,500
3.075
1
283 S linfil
560,831
875,425
603,784
1,249,740
1,867,623
$ 69.930
422
227
530
442
139
864
9
11
16
17
79
62
115
35
88
152
194
138
4,312
3,205
7,192
1,680
3,975
6,852
7,431
4,547
110.119
88.900
115.442
242,442
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake St Clair
Lake Erie
31
877
228,500
1,835.460
9.1 « 17ft
Lake Ontario . ...
727
423
1 357 7501 iia afil
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
4.440
89
2,225
$597,633 1.092
$688,928
1,146
$50,255
8.350,613
$959,367
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
528
2.246.952
2.790
26.896
199,772
99.447
1,572.911
4.286
1,592.185
300.816
254,235
1,122,895
286,981
355
1,401,016
551.550
8.355
280.573
1.698,585
644,025
1,504,194
1,753,699
151
204,955
12,811
756.353
7.356
56.727
49.916
806
16.734
2,750
141,368
8.930
41.277
5.872
1,154,287
Lake Superior
61.832
North Channel
71.271
Georgian Bay ,
20.982
500
9.354,687
26,203
129.767
Lake Huron
197.683
Lake St. Clair
47,240
Lake Erie
448.957
21.785
3,355
Totals
4.153.582
5.518.388
6.098.993
1,040.940
9,449,521
2,136,177
Price per pound ,
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
Values
$207,679.10
$607,022.68
$670,889.23
$62,456.40
$472,476.05
$ 234,979.47
ANNUAL REPORT, 1937-38
45
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
Province of Ontario, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1937.
MENT
Seine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
Night Lines
Spears
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
Yards
Value
No.
Value
No. Value
No.
Value
No.
Hooks
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
1 1
._ 1
51
50
96
84
137
126
549
$14,935
25.455
38.077
76.660
81.450
12.300
306.800
1
64|$2.480
i
2
1,700
$274
134
130
39
$27,555
15.230
13.380
14.785
27.545
6.150
141.375
8.405
2.140
1
89 $9,500
$ 225,377
28
30
38
62
34
12,223
18.300
269.823
'
1
260.137
A
700
$ 525
50
745
1
28,870
11,139
4,145
1,387
136
64
188
138
6
23
27,7551 455,357
1
71
18
98
38
26
9.7401 597.119
45
10 200
A 7Q1
5
13
733
233
500
1195
15.592
6.261
3 3
2 1 4
30 i 918
2.850
2.550
K 1 Sa
9| 1.6251 40,746
50
13 6001 8 370
78| 26.2901 1.142.615
q
2.710
fi 89?;
990
7,415
26
3
6.5401 261,928
62
49 1 243 1 5.650
1 1
80
580
2001 24,599
l'
1 1
170| 34.035l$22,091
1 1
1.093
$555,677
1.098
$
26,773
i 1
86 1 $1,170 1 57.920
1 !
$6,466
se
603
527
$256,565
369
1
$112,173|$3,277.701
1
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
TuUibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
43.152
1.637
9.078
1 041
15.117
210.972
131.070
6.563
91.709
506.806
35,680
3,646
580
2,688
29,059
8,207
288,753
337,898
153,027
262,549
312,048
54.292
253,677
114,480
58,520
289,600
1,258,095
271,877
i 292,862
1.137
4.446,955
4.508,992
1.307,470
3.079,087
3,188,770
766,308
14,664,735
3.376.545
754.010
$424,656.49
349.994.95
122.294.89
6,355
4,388
145,589
31.582
1,691,074
147.986
8,035
49
4,736
82,105
81,729
56,687
210,798
143,908
12
6
395
249
656
73
1 ,
319,004.49
300.613.15
41.582.96
826.094.55
222.022.57
37.899.44
1 7'225
9,566
13.317
8.025
65.987
8,919
93.041
74,906
2,050.126
947,120
535.692
1,086,407
2,905.451
2.528
36.092.872
1
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
$37,216.40
$5,243.42
$102,506.30
$56,827.20
$42,855.36
$54,320.35
$87,163.53
$2,528.00
$2,644,163.49
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Kind
1936
Pounds
1937
Pounds
Increase
Pounds
Decrease
Pounds
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (blue) .
Pickerel (dore) ,
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS
298,562
790.403
458,730
158,345
899,501
393,178
106,868
61,780
1,586,959
920,155
609,488
1,166,710
2,802,028
1,906
4,153,582
5,518,388
6,098,993
1,040,940
9,449,521
2,136,177
93,041
74,906
2,050,126
947,120
535,692
1,086,407
2,905,451
2,528
2,550,020
13,126
463,167
26,965
103.423
622
144,980
272,015
359,737
117,405
257!66i
13,827
73.796
80.303
34,254,613 36,092,872 *1, 838, 259
! I
* Net Increase
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1937
Kind
Quantity
Pounds
Price per
Pound
Estimated
Value
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (blue)
Pickerel (dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and coarse
Caviare
TOTALS
4,153
5,518
6,098
1,040
9,449
2,136
93
74
2,050
947
535
1,086
2,905
2
,582
,388
,993
.940
.521
,177
,041
,906
,126
.120
.692
.407
,451
.528
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
207.679.10
607,022.68
670,889.23
62,456.40
472,476.05
234,979.47
37,216.40
5.243.42
102,506.30
56,827.20
42.855.36
54,320.35
87,163.53
2.528.00
36.092,872
$2,644,163.49
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF ONTARIO FISHERIES FOR A PERIOD
OF TWENTY YEARS
1918—1937 INCLUSIVE
1918 $ 3.175,110.32
1919 2,721,440.24
1920 2,691,093.74
1921 2,656,775.82
1922 2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926 2,643,686.28
1927 3,229,143.57
1928 $ 3,033,944.42
1929 3,054,282.02
1930 2,539,904.91
1931 2.442.703.55
1932 2,286,573.50
1933 2,186.083.74
1934 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
1936 2,614,748.49
1937 2.644,163.49
Thirty-Second Annual Report
OF THE
Gome and Fisheries
Department
1938-1939
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1940
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Moat Excellent Majesty
19 4 0
TO THE HONORABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS.
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1939.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Cfiarge,
Department of Game and Fisheries
Toronto, 1940.
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THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON:
Minister in charge.
Department oi Game and Fisheries.
SIR: —
I have the honour to submit to you in this and the following pages the Thirty-
second Annual Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining the
activities of Departmental services and including various statistical and comparative
tables for the fiscal year ended March Slst, 1939.
INTRODUCTORY
The wild life of Ontario is a public legacy which for purposes of administration
has been entrusted to the Department of Game and Fisheries. It has a value which
outranks its material worth, because, besides being an integral part of our economic
system, it is of tremendous importance from a recreational standpoint.
It is well to remember that the problem of administration is complicated by
the destructive effects of modern civilization. Nature populated our forests with game
and fur-bearing animals, our fields, woods and marshes with game and insectivorous
birds and our waters with a variety and abundance of fishes not excelled elsewhere.
In the scheme of nature a proper balance as to numbers was maintained through
natural instinct. In addition, provision appears to have been made for checking
over-abundance by means of disease which periodically attacks such species as
rabbits, grouse, etc. This provision of nature for setting up a proper balance has
been completely upset through a variety of causes. These are mostly the result of
the encroachment of civilization and the economic development which is an essential
part of human existence. These are some of the conditions which complicate the
problem of conserving wild life and have upset the balance set up by nature.
While it is part of the conservation programme to restore as far as possible
natural environmental conditions, it will be obvious that much of the difficulty
Is of a permanent nature incidental to our economic development. If these important
facts are kept in mind the necessity for an intensive programme of conservation
will be obvious and the need for adapting the work of rehabilitation to meet
existing conditions apparent.
Summing up we find that we have in our wild life resources an asset of
tremendous importance. It is a resource which, if used wisely, will keep on
renewing itself from year to year. The conservation programme of the Department
of Game and Fisheries is intended to stimulate this reproduction through protection,
and to assist nature through artificial propagation. To be successful, such a programme
requires the co-operation of every citizen. This assistance is best rendered by
personal observance of the regulations and by discouraging illegal practices in others.
The general situation throughout the Province with regard to game and
fish is reasonably satisfactory. During the open season deer were reported to be
more numerous in many sections than they had been for many years. It is altogether
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
likely that the comparatively mild winters of the past two or three years and the
added protection which has been afforded them has resulted in a large increase in
numbers. Hunters are evidently finding this sport just as interesting as ever. In
the sections of the Province where closed seasons have prevailed for years, deer
have become very numerous; in fact, in many places they are so plentiful as to
be the cause of complaints to the Department.
In the sphere of upland game, conditions are also very gratifying. Partridge
were numerous enough to warrant an open season, and pheasants and Hungarian
Partridge have become well established over a large section of the southern part
of the Province. Rabbits still afford excellent winter hunting and the Jack has now
spread over a very wide area.
The duck situation has improved considerably all over the continent, although
Ontario hunters found no scarcity of wild fowl last year.
By reason of the fact that the water areas of the Province are so extensive
and the varieties of fish available so numerous, it is difficult to do more than
comment in a general way on the fishing situation. Angling for speckled trout and
brown trout has improved considerably and many suitable streams in old Ontario,
which for years have been more or less depleted, are once more providing excellent
sport.
Bass fishing in many sections was the best it has been for a number of
years.
The pictures and stories of large pike and maskinonge taken by anglers which
have appeared in the press are proof that big fish are still to be had in reasonable
numbers.
In short, we believe that this Province still provides scores of thousands of
hunters and anglers with the finest in sport and health-giving exercise, and that
the general situation from the sportsman's standpoint is good.
FINANCIAL
Upon the advent of the present Administration, and as you are aware, a change
was made in the financial period, and commencing in 1935 provision was made
under which the fiscal year extended from April 1st to March 31st, and each succeeding
year since that time has provided an increased revenue as collected by this Depart-
ment. It is believed that the following table of revenue, expenditure and surplus,
for the present and preceding three years will be of interest.
Revenue
Expenditure
(Ordinary & Capital)
Surplus
1935-36
$683,938.72
782,217.63
866.558.19
914.475.24
$451,041.91
474.128.95
563,938.33
575,437.79
$232,896.81
1936-37
318,088.68
1937-38
302,619.86
1938-39
339,037 45
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31ST. 1939
ORDINARY-
MAIN OFFICE-
GAME—
Licenses —
Trapping $ 26,265.30
Non-Resident Hunting 80,415.00
Deer 83,526.55
Moose 2,574.00
Gun 95,788.45
Dog 5,348.35
Fur Dealers 22,007.75
Fur Farmers 9,550.00
Tanners : 200.00
Cold Storage 147.00
$ 325,822.40
Royalty 74,064.75
$ 399,887.15
FISHERIES—
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 88,568.00
Angling 339,450.05
$ 428,018.05
Sales — Spawn taking 311.47
Royalty 13,519.87
441,849.39
GENERAL—
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 6,855.00
Guides 7,928.00
$14,783.00
Fines 26,245.40
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Game Act) 979.90
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 21,605.29
Rent 3,675.07
Commission retained by Province on sale of licenses 1,824.00
Miscellaneous 725.59
69,838.25
EXPERIMENTAL FUR FARM—
Sales— Pelts 2,900.45
Net Ordinary Revenue $ 914,475.24
With reference to our financial operations during the year under review, and
as previously stated, it will be observed that the total revenue collected by this
Department shows a substantial increase over that of the previous year, and which
increase amounts to a total of $47,917.05. The principal specific increases to which
this splendid showing may be attributed include an additional $29,214.09 from the
sale of resident deer and gun licenses, $14,683.90 more fines imposed on those appre-
hended while violating various provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regula-
tions, an indication of the increased activity of the staff of enforcement officers,
while the sales of confiscated articles produced $10,921.55 in excess of the amount
realized from the same source in the preceding year.
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Expenditures, both capital and ordinary, amounted to a total of $575,437.79,
which left an operating surplus for the year of $339,037.45 as shown in a previous
statistical table. Some of the principal items of expenditure which go to make
up this total include the sum of $226,716.29 necessary to maintain the staff of
enforcement officers operating under this Department, and some $186,911.00 in
connection with the propagation and distribution of fish by the Fish Hatchery
Service of the Biological and Fish Culture Branch. Expenditures in connection
with the payment of Wolf Bounties totalled the sum of $25,435.24, while grants to
assist in the work of research conducted by various Associations and individuals
amounted to $8,900.00. The sum of $19,973.00 was expended for game birds and
animals, principally in connection with the propagation, purchase and distribution
of pheasants. For the purchase of and repairs to boats, boathouses and vehicles
it was necessary to expend in all a total of $12,898.31. while a total capital expenditure
of $16,902.91 was made to take care of additional fish culture ponds and dams, and
bird farm buildings, the greater proportion of this amount being spent on improve-
ments at the Codrington Bird Farm. Excluding the aforementioned capital expenditure
the net ordinary expenditure therefore totalled $558,534.88.
GAME
The comparative table next following details the various resident and non-
resident hunting licenses which were issued during the period under review, as
well as similar statistics for the preceding three years. While there was a noticeable
reduction in the sale of non-resident general hunting licenses this may be attributed
to the fact that following the legislative action provided at the 1938 Session there
was no open season for moose in certain areas easily accessible to non-resident
visitors, that is the southeastern and southwestern portions of Northern Ontario,
but this decrease to a large extent was nullified by the increase in the number
of non-resident deer licenses which were issued. Reference has previously
been made to the greater number of resident deer and gun licenses which were
issued this year.
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
R-P^idPTit MoosG
496
14,779
258
5,221
85,884
686
652
680
542
15,394
262
5,386
79,531
1,129
848
878
580
18.672
283
6.503
90,756
1,634
1.036
1,043
471
RpRidGiit Deer
21,762
Rpsidpnt Deer fCaniD)
307
Resident Deer (Farmers)
7,719
Resident Gun
114,580
Non-resident Small Game
1,618
Non-resident Deer
1,329
Non-resident "General"
569
Conservation and co-operation loom large on the educational horizon of the
sportsman. The two are being emphasized as the key to a fuller enjoyment of
that wonderful heritage, — our wild-life resources, — with which nature has so bounti-
fully blessed us. Conservation in its broadest sense and as applied to wild life
is the effort to keep pace with modern conditions; to profit from past experiences
resulting from misuse, and through wise management maintain an adequate supply
for present and future needs; to provide proper control and protection based on
knowledge and experience; to restore natural conditions wherever possible and to
ensure development through natural and artificial propagation. It is a general
programme so obviously essential to good management that it should appeal to
everyone interested in the safeguarding of a valuable asset.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
In the carrying out of such a programme of conservation the Department,
due to the difficulties which arise from time to time, requires the full co-operation
of the sportsman and which co-operation can best be provided by a complete
observance of the laws himself, and by his assistance in educating others to the
necessity for so doing. The Game and Fisheries Laws have the approbation of
every good sportsman. They are restrictive only to the extent necessary to provide
better sport. They embody the result of knowledge and experience and are con-
servation measures of the utmost importance.
Following is a summary of conditions as they apply to the game life of the
Province, — both animal and bird, — compiled from information supplied in reports
submitted by the various members of the Field Service Staff of the Department: —
UEEK: — Reports received in the Department are to the effect that the deer
herds in Northern Ontario are more than holding their own despite more intensive
hunting than has been the case in previous seasons. There is every indication that
these animals are, generally speaking, quite plentiful in the various districts in
Northern Ontario, though there are some scattered and isolated sections in the
various northern divisions where such is not the case, largely due to the fact
that conditions are not quite favourable. Similar observations would be applicable
in the several Districts and Counties in the more northerly portion of Southern
Ontario, viz.: — Parry Sound, Muskoka, Haliburton and Renfrew, as well as the northern
portion of Victoria, Peterborough, Hastings, Frontenac and Lanark.
The value of conservation measures for the protection of wild life perhaps
has no better illustration than in the case of deer in the southwestern and southeastern
counties. Years ago it became quite evident that the number of deer in these
sections of the southern portion of the Province was rapidly diminishing and their
numbers becoming quite scarce, and with a view to their restoration the protection
of an entire closed season was provided.
Quite obviously the deer have permanently disappeared from the most thickly
settled areas, but there is every indication, according to communications and news-
paper reports reaching the Department, that they are more prevalent in largely
increased numbers in the sections adjacent to the centres of densest population, and
where they are now more numerous than they have been for the past several
years.
Whatever may be the future of the deer in those areas where settlement and
population have made the greatest inroads one thing is certain, — the perpetuation and
development of our wild life resources can be definitely assured if we will but
unite to afford them that measure of protection and proper control which is
necessary to our wise use of them.
MOOSE: — Nowhere in Ontario are these animals to be found in numbers
which may be classified as plentiful. There has been an entire close season on
this species for several years in Southern Ontario, and reports indicate some
improvement in Muskoka, Haliburton, Frontenac and northeastern Renfrew. In
Northern Ontario conditions were about the same with some increase in scattered
sections of Cochrane and Sudbury Districts. An entire close season existed in
the northern part of Nipissing, the southern part of Temiskaming and the south-
eastern part of Sudbury in the east, and in the District of Rainy River and that
part of the District of Kenora south of the main transcontinental line of the C.N.R.,
in the west and reports would indicate slight improvement in these two protected
areas.
CARIBOU: — An entire close season prevails on this species, a few of which
may be found in scattered and widely separated sections in northwestern Cochrane,
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northern Sudbury, Algoma (particularly the Chapleau Game Preserve), Lake Nipigon
section of Thunder Bay, and the Lake of the Woods section.
ELK: — This species also is provided the protection of an entire close season.
The original herds were imported from Western Canada. In southern Ontario there
are a few specimens on the Bruce Peninsula and on Beausoliel Island in the
Georgian Bay, as well as on the Petawawa Crown Game Preserve in Renfrew County,
Their numbers in Northern Ontario are principally to be found within such Crown
Game Preserves as Nipissing, Burwash, Chapleau, Ranger Lake and Onaman River.
Some improvement is reported.
BEAK: — These animals are reported to be quite plentiful in many sections, —
particularly in Northern Ontario, — as well as in the northern portion of Southern
Ontario. It would appear from reports to the Department that increasing numbers
of sportsmen, both resident and non-resident, participate in the sport which the
hunting of these animals provides.
RABBITS: — The interested hunter knows that in Ontario excellent sport is
provided by the hunting of rabbits during the late fall and winter months. In the
southern counties the cottontail is quite plentiful practically throughout, though
reports indicate they are none too plentiful in some of the eastern sections. The
jack-rabbit or European hare is plentiful in the southwest as well as in some counties
to the north. It is found apparently as far east as Northumberland and north to
Bruce, Grey, Dufferin, Simcoe, Victoria and Peterborough. The snowshoe rabbit is avail-
able in the northern portion of Southern Ontario and in Northern Ontario, though condi-
tions as to the prevalence of this particular species vary considerably. In Parry Sound,
Muskoka, Haliburton and Renfrew while not too plentiful they are reported to be
increasing numerically, and somewhat similar conditions exist in sections throughout
the north.
SQUIRREL (Black and Grey) :— These animals are reported to be quite pre-
valent in the southern and western counties. Sufficiently numerous to warrant the
provision of a limited open season and restricted catch.
PARTRIDGE: — This season the hunter had an opportunity of taking this
fine sporting bird. The increase in numbers of the ruffed grouse justified an open
season which was divided into two parts to afford a wider enjoyment of the sport.
Sportsmen are more or less familiar with the cycle of abundance and scarcity which
appears to be one of the characteristics of the life history of this bird, and which
is one of the primary reasons why open seasons on partridge are not more numerous.
The species known as the prairie chicken, or sharp-tailed grouse, is found only in the
extreme north and west and their numbers were not too plentiful even in these
sections.
QUAIL: — These birds inhabit only the extreme southwestern counties of
Essex, Kent, Elgin, Lambton and Middlesex, from where reports are to the effect
that conditions and prevalence are quite favorable. They are also reported, though
not plentiful, from Dundas, Stormont and Glengarry.
PHEASANT: — These fine game birds are found chiefly in the areas in which
Departmental re-stocking has been provided, in the counties at the western end
of Lake Ontario and along the north shore of Lake Erie. The continued development
of the scheme of Regulated Game Preserve Areas, — that is the Townships in which
hunting is controlled, — necessitated an intensification of distribution. The distribution
of pheasant eggs was entirely eliminated and our efforts along these lines were
confined to the actual distribution of the birds themselves. During the year approxi-
mately 20,000 live pheasants were distributed, the greater proportion of which were
liberated in the forty-nine Townships included in the scheme of Regulated Game
Preserve Areas.
ANNUAL REPORT. 1938-39
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE :— This bird as the name implies is a non-native.
The development of this species has been rather an enigma. His progress in Ontario
cannot be considered spectacular, but reports from certain sections, particularly the
southwestern and southeastern counties, seem to indicate that the birds are steadily
becoming more numerous. The following report from one of our Field Officers
may be of interest: —
"Concerning the shipment of ten Hungarian partridges which you sent
to me last Spring (1938) to be liberated, I thought probably you would be
interested to know that at present we have two nice flocks of these birds
wintering near my place. One flock consists of about thirty-five birds
and the other of about twenty birds. There may still be others around that
I do not know of. These birds seem to be very hardy and so far appear
to be quite capable of surviving the tough winter and deep snow of this
district."
DUCKS: — Reports from various members of the Field Staff indicate that
this fine game bird continues to provide enjoyable sport during the regular open
season in practically every section of the Province, though as has been observed
in previous reports the restrictions which govern the open season and limits of
catch as at present existing will require to be continued to maintain the degree
of hunting which now prevails.
GEESE: — There are but few sections of Ontario in which goose shooting is
available. The James Bay shore in the far northern portion of the Province affords
perhaps the best opportunity for this sport, but during the southern Fall migration
apparently the only section in which hunting is available is in the extreme south-
western counties.
WOODCOCK: — These birds are not very plentiful anywhere in the Province
and are extremely scarce in the north. It would appear from reports that in some
eastern Counties and along the Lake Erie shore the most favourable conditions
prevail.
SNIPE: — While these birds are somewhat more numerous than the woodcock,
practically the same conditions apply, though there are more sections in which
their numbers provide desirable sport.
PLOVER: — Continues quite scarce throughout the entire Province, though some
slight improvement is reported from different areas in the extreme southerly counties.
During the year under review Regulations were adopted which provided for
special open seasons, details of which are as follows: —
(a) Deer in that portion of Carleton County lying west of the Rideau
River, — from November 5th to 19th, inclusive. General deer
hunting regulations governed.
(b) Deer in the Counties of Grey, Bruce and Simcoe, from November
14th to 19th, inclusive. General deer hunting regulations gov-
erned, except that the use of dogs was not permitted.
(c) Pheasants on Pelee Island, on October 21st and 22nd, and
October 28th and 29th. Limit of five birds per day. Special
Municipal hunting license $5.00, October 21st and 22nd; $3.00,
October 28th and 29th.
(d) Pheasants in the Regulated Game Preserve Areas in the Coun-
ties of York, Halton, Wentworth, Lincoln and Welland, on
October 21st, 22nd and 29th. Limit of three cock birds per day.
Special Municipal hunting license $1.00 per day
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(e) Pheasants in Westminster Township (Middlesex) Regulated
Game Preserve Area, on October 21st and 29th and November 5th.
Limit of three cock birds per day. Special Municipal hunting
license $1.00 per day.
(f) Pheasants in the Regulated Game Preserve Areas in the Counties
of Peel, Haldimand, Brant, Norfolk and Elgin, Metcalfe Township
(Middlesex), and Amherst Island (Lennox), on October 21st
and 22nd. Limit of catch three cock birds per day. Special
Municipal hunting license $1.00 per day.
(g) Pheasants, quail and Hungarian Partridge, in the Counties of
Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and Kent, on October 21st, 22nd
and 29th. Limit of three cock pheasants, four quail and two
Hungarian Partridge per day.
(h) Partridge throughout the Province, (except Regulated Game Pre-
serve Areas), from October 10th to 15th inclusive, and from
November 5th to 10th inclusive. Limit of five birds per day
and not more than fifteen during the two periods specified.
(i) Black and grey squirrel throughout the Province, on October
21st and 22nd. Limit of four per day.
FUR BEARERS
Conditions as they apply to fur-bearing animals throughout the Province are
set forth in the following references, as summarized from reports of members of
the Field Service Staff: —
BEAVER: — This species has enjoyed the protection of an entire close season
with resulting improvement in many sections, particularly in tlie northern portion
of the Province.
FISHER: — This animal as a species is extremely scarce, and the number trapped
in any one season is very limited.
FOX: — There are indications that fox continues to be quite plentiful in many
sections and while the figures contained in the following table show a decrease,
this may possibly be due to the fact that prices are not sufficient to warrant
the trapper taking these animals at this time.
LYNX: — This species is undoubtedly becoming extremely scarce throughout.
Reports do not refer to improvement anywhere.
MARTEN: — Also very scarce. As in the case of lynx there are no reports
of improvement.
MINK: — These animals are becoming quite scarce in the southern counties. In
Northern Ontario conditions remained about usual with some slight improvement
in scattered and widely separated areas.
MUSKRAT: — Reports are to the effect that there are many sections in the
Province where conditions are favourable and as a result this species was fairly
plentiful. It will be noted that there was an increase in the number of these
animals which were trapped during the open season in the year under review, but
there is no doubt this species will continue to require the protection which has
been provided in more recent years.
OTTER: — This species is very scarce in practically every section of Ontario.
The annual catch has remained fairly steady, and generally speaking they are available
only in Northern Ontario.
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RACCOON: — There was quite a noticeable decrease in the catch of raccoon
during the open season which prevailed in 1938, though reports indicate that conditions
affecting this species remained fairly normal. These animals are found only in the
southern counties.
SKUNK: — Reported to be quite plentiful in practically every section of South-
ern Ontario, though there are a few sections in the north in which they are not so
numerous and while the catch during the year shows a large increase, there is
no doubt the prices paid for the pelts discourages the average trapper from making
any special effort to take these animals.
WEASEL: — Except in southwestern counties reported to be fairly plentiful.
While there was an increased catch in 1938-39, the value of the pelt to the trapper
is not sufficient to warrant any particular activity for the taking of these animals.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of various species
of fur-bearing animals which were exported from and dressed within the Province,
during the year under review as well as in the three years immediately preceding: —
Rear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (white)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
1935-36
2
1,
47,
398
3
13
50,
42,
411
,785
,137
,424
,044
500
883
642
282
057
,043
701
259
,747
643
4
1936-37
476
238
2.117
4,156
35,232
360
17
2,081
1,464
33,930
370,239
3,779
14,243
87,950
78,643
2
1937-38
496
235
1,463
2,426
24,912
201
47
1,284
1.709
22.766
343.972
3,737
13.194
61,576
79.853
5
1938-39
363
1,366
1,467
2,164
22,366
131
142
785
2,074
25,111
508,893
3,764
9,493
89,100
93,488
3
Information compiled in the Department shows that these furs were worth
to the trapper the sum of $1,168,409.40 and while this figure is slightly more than
$200,000.00 in excess of a similar compilation for the previous year, the increase is
largely attributable to the fact that the catch of muskrats in 1938-39 exceeded by
165,000 the catch in 1937-38.
It is again necessary to state that present restrictions which are provided for
the protection of the more desirable fur-bearing animals are essential for the main-
tenance and development of existing conditions which apply.
The fur farmer is gradually supplying the trade with certain classes of pelts
which are becoming scarce in the wild, and in this connection the following statistics
are supplied in the matter of the product of licensed fur farms which were marketed
during the year: Cross fox pelts to the number of 293 were disposed of, 258 of which
were exported and 35 dressed in the Province, the value of which was $4,058.05;
silver and black fox numbering 38,234 were disposed of, 30,963 exported and 7,271
dressed in the Province, all of which were valued at $658,770.82; and 35,918 mink
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were disposed of, of which 35,491 were exported and 427 dressed within the Province,
all of which were worth $280,519.58 to the fur farmers. Thus the entire fur production
within the Province produced the sum of $2,111,757.85 for trappers and licensed fur
farmers. The furs above mentioned, and which were prodnced on fur farms were
not subject to the payment of royalty in accordance with the exemption provided
in the Game and Fisheries Act.
FUR FARMING
During the year 1,791 fur farmers' licenses were issued, an increase of 255
or more than sixteen percent, the largest annual increase for ten years. These
farms may be classified to show 837 as fox farms, 708 as mink farms, 202 mixed
farms, (principally fox and mink) and 44 miscellaneous farms.
The subjoined comparative table shows the total breeding stock retained on
these licensed premises as at the first day of January in each of the four years
enumerated: —
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Bear
Marten
1936
70
16
367
228
21,645
5
2
12.332
375
524
3
21
4
1937
21
20
257
207
23,869
0
2
15.539
351
358
5
15
4
1938
25
16
235
140
24,848
0
2
21,982
302
351
9
15
11
1939
2
19
197
120
22,923
98
2
30.378
267
284
6
15
15
From the foregoing statistical table it will be observed that silver fox and mink
represent the greater proportion of the operations thus carried on, while of these
mink is rapidly assuming a role of major importance.
The general location of these fur farms is shown in the following table: —
County or District Number of Farms
Algoma 35
Brant 10
Bruce 69
Carleton 44
Cochrane 13
Dufferin 8
Dundas 5
Durham 20
Elgin 11
Essex 9
Frontenac 47
Glengarry 5
Grenville 7
Grey 125
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County or District Number of Farms
Haldimand 27
Haliburton 1
Halton 24
Hastings 20
Huron 73
Kenora 30
Kent 22
Lambton 28
Lanark Ill
Leeds 50
Lennox & Addington 1
Lincoln 4
Manitoulin 67
Muskoka 36
Middlesex 47
Nipissing 18
Norfolk 34
Northumberland 8
Ontario 44
Oxford 33
Parry Sound 24
Patricia 3
Peel 15
Perth 57
Peterborough 10
Prescott 12
Prince Edward 7
Rainy River 31
Renfrew 93
Russell 9
Simcoe 102
Stormont 11
Sudbury 13
Temiskaming 11
Thunder Bay 71
Victoria 21
Waterloo 53
Welland 13
Wellington 34
Wentworth 18
York 97
Total 1,791
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
During the year an important addition was made to the game preserves of
the Province by the establishment of a waterfowl sanctuary at Hannah Bay in the
James Bay District.
This refuge embraces one of the finest nesting and feeding grounds in the
district, and will prevent undue destruction at the source of supply. It has an
area of some seventy square miles and extends south from the line projected from
East Point on Hannah Bay to the Ontario-Quebec Interprovincial boundary, and north
of a line projected from the south bank of the Mississikabe River where it enters
Hannah Bay to the Quebec boundary.
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A change was made in the boundaries of the Dumfries Game Preserve by
withdrawing therefrom all that portion of South Dumfries Township located within
the area. This was made desirable by the fact that the whole township of South
Dumfries was established as a Regulated Game Preserve Area.
At the same time a small Crown Game Preserve was set up within the Township
of South Dumfries.
The designation, location and approximate size of the areas are as follows: —
DESIGNATION
Hannah Bay Waterfowl Sanctuary . . .
xDumfries Game Preserve
South Dumfries Crown Game Preserve
COUNTY
Cochrane District
Waterloo
Brant
EXTENT IN ACRES
44,800 approx.
14,000
1,200
X Reduced in size.
REGULATED GAME PRESERVE AREAS
In introducing the subject, it seems desirable to say a few words as to the
reasons for the inauguration in 1937 of this system of further control in connection
with hunting.
For many generations the sportsmen of the Province have been privileged
through the goodwill of the landowners, to make free use of private property in
their pursuit of game. It should be noted, however, that while game is a common
heritage, the land which it inhabits, particularly in Southern Ontario, is mostly
privately owned. To reduce the game to possession, the hunter must have the good-
will of the landowner, failing which, a spirit of antagonism is set up between the
two which results in the cancellation of the privileges of entering upon the lands
to hunt game. Recognizing this fact, and feeling that any plan which would have
the effect of eliminating the grievances of the farmer through more rigid control of
the hunter would be in the best interests of the sport, the Department formulated a
plan for the establishment of regulated shooting areas in certain Townships.
To better understand the conditions which apply, it should be noted that in
most of these areas the available hunting consists of upland game birds, rabbits
and ducks. The latter two are fairly plentiful and provide most of the hunting.
For many years the Department has been endeavouring to stock suitable areas of the
Province with English Ringneck Pheasants and although the results in certain
counties were sufficiently successful to warrant open seasons, in others development
was somewhat slow. Most of these latter areas never were opened to pheasant
hunting and the good sportsman refrained from molesting the birds.
The opening of a short pheasant season in a few districts such as the Niagara
Peninsula also resulted in a large influx of hunters to these areas. A congestion of
hunters in any district leads to many complications and much unfavourable publicity,
and in any case, where facilities are limited and many desire to take part, the result
is usually unsatisfactory.
Another situation which frequently created a great deal of annoyance to rural
residents was the heavy influx of hunters from urban centres who literally swept over
the countryside on jack rabbit drives. These drives were not always well conducted
or carried out with a proper regard for the property rights of the farmer. As a
result friction sprang up and bad feeling ensued.
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All of these factors were taken into consideration in devising the scheme of
Township Regulated Shooting Areas.
What are the advantages of such regulated areas? In the first place, the
control exercised through limiting the number of non-residents who may hunt in
the area, and the protection afforded the farmer, as well as the wild life, through
the closing of the area to all hunting except during a small portion of the year,
has brought about a better spirit of co-operation between the farmer and the sportsman.
The former is willing to open his lands to such reasonable demands, and the latter
has reasonable assurance that when he has bought a license he will not be embar-
rassed by being ordered off the land, unless it is privately posted against trespass,
and that through the extensive planting of birds within the area he will be reasonably
sure of at least the opportunity of obtaining some game.
Reports received by the Department from Municipalities which have had the
opportunity of trying out the scheme are unanimous in designating it a success.
This experiment in controlled areas for hunting, particularly in regard to
pheasants, received a great deal of publicity. Some fifty townships were involved
in 1938 and in order that there might be sufficient pheasants to justify an open
season, the Department distributed within the regulated areas close to 16,000 of these
birds in such proportions as the size of the area warranted. Here it should be noted
that the birds were raised or purchased for the purpose of providing a shoot, by
means of funds supplied by the sportsman himself in the form of licenses of one
kind or another. The pheasants released in each township, added to the existing
natural stock, created a supply sufficient to warrant an open season and give
the hunter reasonable assurance of good sport.
For the benefit of those who may be under the impression that such extensive
shooting would probably result in near extinction of the species it is pointed out
that under the conditions involved the birds should become more numerous than ever
before. To appreciate this contention it is necessary to remember that the pheasants
released by the Department were in almost equal proportions in so far as sex is con-
cerned. During the open season only cock birds were included in the bag limit, which
left the hen birds, amounting to fifty per cent of the additional stocking, for breeding
purposes.
The pheasant is a prolific breeder, each nest consisting of from fifteen to
twenty or more eggs, and two hatches per year being quite common. Obviously,
therefore, if suitable habitat is available the stock will replenish itself, despite the
toll of the hunter during a brief open season.
In view of all the facts, as disclosed by these reports, it is apparent that
regulated shoots can be organized without in any way providing a menace to life
or property or seriously interfering with the development of the species concerned.
It is essentially a matter of co-operation. In this respect the Department acknowledges
with pleasure the splendid co-operation of the municipal authorities, the landowners
and the sportsmen in making the scheme an unqualified success from the standpoint
of order, good will and recreational pleasure.
The following is a schedule of the Townships which were included in this
scheme of Regulated Game Preserve Areas, during 1938: —
The Townships of Markham, King, East Gwillimbury and Scarborough in the
County of York.
The Townships of Caledon and Chinguacousy in the County of Peel.
The Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar in the County of Halton,
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The Townships of Ancaster, Barton, Beverley, Binbrook, East Flamboro and
Saltfleet in the County of Wentworth.
The Townships of Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grantham, Louth, Niagara, North
Grimsby and South Grimsby in the County of Lincoln.
The Townships of Bertie, Humberstone, Willoughby, Pelham, Thorold, Crowland,
Wainfleet and Stamford in the County of Welland.
The Townships of Canboro, Dunn, North Cayuga, Oneida, Rainham, Seneca,
South Cayuga, Walpole, Moulton and Sherbrooke in the County of Haldimand.
The Townships of Onondaga and South Dumfries in the County of Brant.
The Townships of Townsend and Windham in the County of Norfolk.
The Township of Dereham in the County of Oxford.
The Townships of Bayham and South Dorchester in the County of Elgin.
The Township of Metcalfe and a portion of the Township of Westminster in
the County of Middlesex.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty statistics for the
current fiscal year and the three years preceding: —
Period
For year ending Mar. 31, 1936
For year ending Mar. 31, 1937
For year ending Mar. 31, 1938
For year ending Mar. 31, 1939
Timber
1,159
1,090
1,022
1,031
Brush
1,713
1,197
837
723
Pups
33
31
30
41
Total
2.905
2,318
1,889
1,795
Bounty &
Expenses
42.399.89
33,360.63
27,474.24
25,357.00
During the year 1,341 applications for wolf bounty were considered in respect
of some 1,837 wolves. Bounty was paid on 1.311 of these claims representing 1,795
wolves as enumerated in the preceding table, while the claims for bounty of twenty-
seven applicants involving some forty-two supposed wolf pelts were rejected.
The payment of bounty under the provisions of the Wolf Bounty Act continued
at basic rates of $15.00 for adult wolves and $5.00 for pups under the age of three
months.
The following table sets forth in detail the sources of origin of the various
pelts for which application for bounty was made: —
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ANALYSIS OF APPLICATIONS FOR WOLF BOUNTY
County or District
Algoma
Bruce
Carleton
Cochrane
Essex
Frontenac
Grey
Haldimand
Hastings
Haliburton
Kenora
Lambton
Lanark
Lennox & Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland . . . .
Ontario
Parry Sound
Patricia
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Temiskaming ,
Thunder Bay
Victoria
Welland
York
Number
of Timber
120
20
28
2
274
f^'-<P
4
18
34
56
1
51
42
5
125
31
4
63
2
141
3
1.047
Number
of Brush
110
13
4
4
1
4
5
1
2
1
3
79
3
21
5
1
1
4
13
i53
1
1
91
8
79
4
4
1
741
Number
of Pups
10
io
49
Total
Pelts
234
33
4
32
1
13
5
1
21
12
397
2
1
7
106
37
77
5
1
2
55
55
5
278
32
15
154
10
230
7
4
1
1.837
Total expenditures which were incurred in the administration of the Wolf
Bounty Act were the sum of $25,435.24, of which, as has been previously stated, the
sum of $25,357.00 was actually paid out as bounty, and details of which payments are
set forth in the following statistical table: —
Brush Wolves 50 @ $ 6.00 $ 300.00
673 (g) $15.00 $10,095.00
723 $10,395.00
Timber Wolves 73 @ $ 6.00 $ 438.00
958 @ $15.00 $14,370.00
1,031 $14,808.00
Pups 17 @ $ 2.00 $ 34.00
24 © $ 5.00 $ 120.00
41 $ 154.00
TOTAL 1,795 $25,357.00
In respect to wolves killed in a County, bounty is paid by the County Treasurer,
and forty per cent of the amount is rebated to the Counties by the Provincial
Treasurer. In the Northern Districts the total amount of bounty is paid by the
Province.
It is of interest to note that 59% of the wolves killed in 1938-39 were
classified as timber wolves, whereas the ratio was 55% in 1937-38, 48% in 1936-37
and 40% in 1935-36.
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GENERAL
TOURIST OUTFITTERS:
The following is an analysis of the distribution by Districts of the camps
of tourist outfitters licensed to operate in Ontario during the year: —
District
Algoma
Cochrane . . .
Kenora
Manitoulin . .
Nipissing . . .
Parry Sound
Patricia ....
Rainy River .
Renfrew . . . .
Sudbury . . . .
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total
Licenses
Non-Resident
Resident
Total
7
73
80
0
3
3
17
97
114
3
43
46
9
88
97
5
102
107
0
3
3
4
23
27
0
9
9
2
60
62
0
3
3
4
20
24
51
524
575
DEPARTMENTAL BULLETIN:
With reference to the publication of the "Bulletin" and the purpose for which
it is prepared and distributed we quote the following extract from the issue of April,
1938: —
"With this number we conclude volume two of the Bulletin, being the first
of the series in its present form. During the year we have attempted to keep
before us the fact that the Bulletin has a special mission to perform, viz, the stimu-
lation of interest in the conservation of our wild life natural resources, and the
education of the public in the wise use of this valuable heritage. No attempt has
been made to usurp the place of the sporting magazines, which are doing a valuable
work along the same line, nor to enter the field of romance and story in con-
nection with the recreational pleasures of hunting and fishing. It has been our object
to present as simply, and as pithily as possible, the many difficult and complex
problems with which the conservation of our wild life is bound up; to give in
everyday language brief facts concerning the life history of many species of fish
and game; to point out the responsibility of the individual in connection with the
protection of our natural resources, and to encourage the work of the Sportsmen's
Protective Associations and all other organized effort which has for its object the
Restoration, Preservation and Perpetuation of our wild life. The activities of the
Department have not been forgotten and we hope that the information which is
published from time to time will serve to keep the, sportsmen informed as to what
is being done in their interest.
And now, with the experience of the first two volumes behind us we would
like to expand our opportunities for effective service by a closer contact with
sportsmen and sportsmen's associations. We therefore invite our readers to assist
us by contributing such personal experiences while hunting or fishing as might
help us to a better understanding of the relationship which exists between birds,
beasts, fish and plant life; or other ideas of non-controversial nature along conserva-
tional lines — obviously matters of Departmental policy cannot be discussed in the
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Bulletin. Association Secretaries might also keep us informed of their activities
so that proper reference could be made.
We acknowledge our indebtedness to the press for the additional publicity
given to many of the atricles appearing in the Bulletin, and hope that Editors will
feel free to use any material they may find suitable for republication.
As a result of the educational and publicity work which is being carried
on by sportsmen's organizations, nature clubs, the press, sporting magazines and
the Department, the public is to-day more conservation-minded than ever before
and this fact augurs well for the future of the movement. We believe that more
real success can be attained through education than through prosecution, although
human nature is such that enforcement will always be essential for protective
purposes. With this in mind we pass from the old to the new, conscious of our
shortcomings, but with the hope that our efforts to stimulate interest have not
been entirely in vain."
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT: —
The present laws and regulations are a most important part of the general
programme for the conservation of our fish and game resources. They are the
result of practical experience plus the biological knowledge acquired after years
of research. They are restrictive only in so far as is necessary to ensure proper
use and a continuous supply. Close seasons are provided in the interest of natural
reproduction and are determined from a study of the life history of the various
species. Bag limits and limits of size are intended to ensure an equitable distribution
of the available resources. Obviously limiting the take helps prevent waste.
In every walk of life there are certain laws and conventions which govern,
and these we must know and observe or suffer the consequences. The observance
of the laws which regulate the taking of fish and game is of major importance
in securing for every citizen the opportunity to enjoy the recreational pleasures which
wild life affords. It is the duty of every sportsman, therefore, to make himself
familiar with these laws and, having done so, see that his actions afield are in keeping
therewith. Co-operation in this regard will help to conserve a valuable heritage.
What impresses one at meetings of the Legislative Fish and Game Committee
is the evident sincerity in the cause of wild life conservation of the delegates
who attend to present recommendations, and the entire absence of requests that might
be termed selfish or shortsighted. The success of the conservation movement lies
in the development of this spirit of co-operation through individual and organized
effort, and if the tone of the representations which are made before this Committee
is a reflection of the attitude of the public, then a new conception of individual
responsibility for the protection and restoration of our game and fish resources
has been born, and this will undoubtedly be an important factor in providing and
maintaining better hunting and fishing.
Amendments enacted by the Legislative Assembly and which became effective
during the year included the following provisions:
(a) Rescinding the definition of the word "monitor," as used by duck hunters.
(b) Authorizing the issue of special hunting licenses by Municipal authorities
to be valid in Regulated Game Preserve Areas.
(c) Providing an entire close season for moose in portions of Sudbury, Nipissing
and Temiskaming, in the southeastern part of Northern Ontario, and in Rainy
River and that part of Kenora south of the main transcontinental line of the
Canadian National Railway in the southwestern part of Northern Ontario.
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(d) Providing that the open season for muskrat be annually established by
Regulation.
(e) Changes in the provisions which govern the operation and licensing of
Tourist Outfitter's Camps.
(f) Providing that non-resident hunters shall engage the services of licensed
guides while hunting deer in the Districts of Rainy River and Kenora.
(g) Providing a limit of catch on cotton tail rabbits in the Counties of Essex
and Kent, and prohibiting the purchase and sale of these animals in these
two Counties.
(h) Permitting the use of automatic shotguns by hunters when such firearms
are permanently plugged to hold not more than three shells.
(i) Mining camps included among the places where it is unlawful to possess
or carry firearms.
(j) Permitting non-resident anglers to export the lawful catch of two days'
fishing of all game fish species. (One day's catch only in the case of
Maskinonge.)
Amendments to the Fisheries Regulations adopted during the year include the
following provisions: —
(a) Rescinding the definition of the term "one day."
(b) Including Hog's Back Dam, on the Ottawa River, among the waters in
which it is prohibited to use spears and dip nets to take coarse fish
during April and May.
(c) Changes in the open seasons for Maskinonge, Pickerel and Whitefish.
(d) Changes in the special regulation which applies to fishing in the waters
of Victoria, Peterborough, Northumberland and Durham.
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE
Years ago the enforcement of laws in connection with hunting and fishing
was almost negligible. There were few Game Wardens, and those who held the
appointments were paid so poorly that they could not devote their full time to the
work, and found it more advantageous to close their eyes to much that took place.
As a result of this condition, law observance was at a low ebb and wild life suffered
thereby. Gradually, however, an efficient and effective protective service has been
built up and is doing splendid work in connection with the enforcement of the
Game and Fisheries Act.
The work of the Overseer, or Game Warden, is beset with many difficulties.
In the first place, he must of necessity cover an extensive territory, much of it off
the beaten track; and in the second place, he is faced with an attitude on the
part of a section of the public which implies a lack of any serious moral qualms over
non-observance of the Game and Fisheries Laws.
The Game Warden in invariably courteous in carrying out his duties, but his
task would be much easier if all those who hunt and fish would recognize that
the laws are intended to ensure the greatest pleasure for the greatest number and
that to disregard the rules of the game is to deprive posterity of its rightful share.
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At the present time there are some ninety permanent Wardens devoting their
full time to enforcement work. The services of this field staff are augmented by the
assistance of the Provincial Police Force, as well as certain seasonal officers who
are employed for varying periods in order to provide adequate patrol service along
certain waters during the spring and fall fish spawning periods, as well as enforcement
work during the various hunting seasons.
We are happy to report that the general body of sportsmen never were so
conservation-minded as they are to-day. As proof of this we would point to the
fact that in 1938 more than 1,500 sportsmen voluntarily offered their services to,
and were accepted by the Department as Deputy Game Wardens, in addition to
633 who were provided with such appointments at the request of Municipal organiza-
tions to assist in enforcing the regulations which govern in the Townships created
as Regulated Game Preserve Areas. These men are clothed with all the authority
necessary to enforce observance of the Act. It is obvious that the practical support
and moral effect of this army of voluntary workers is of very great importance in
preventing abuses of the privileges enjoyed by sportsmen.
During 1938-39 there were some 1,878 cases in which offenders against
provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regulations were apprehended by
Game and Fisheries Overseers and others authorized to act in the way of securing
observance of these provisions, and in which cases various articles of hunting,
trapping and fishing equipment and the product thereof were confiscated at the
time of apprehension. A compilation of the various reports of seizure submitted
by the officers concerned shows that such action was provided by Game and Fisheries
Overseers in 1,638 of these cases, by members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force
in 78 cases, by Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens in 69 cases, and in the remaining
93 cases seizures were made by co-operative action of Overseers, Provincial Police
and Deputy Game Wardens.
A condensed summary of the articles confiscated shows the following: —
Live animals in 32 cases
Birds, game animals a:nd meat in 226 cases
Firearms and ammunition in 760 cases
Fish in 275 cases
Nets and Fishing equipment in 327 cases
Angling equipment in 114 cases
Pelts and hides in 287 cases
Traps and equipment in 132 cases
Water craft in 51 cases
Motor Vehicles in 17 cases
Lights in 42 cases
Spears in 63 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 56 cases
This total of 2,382 does not correspond with the actual number of seizures,
viz:— 1,878 by reason of various entries on some seizures. For instance an irrespon-
sible hunter might lose a gun and some birds or game animals, a trapper operating
contrary to the regulations some traps and pelts, an indiscreet angler his fishing
rod and some speckled trout or bass, while there would be instances where spears,
lights and fish would be involved in each case, as well as other combinations which
would account for the apparent discrepancy.
Included among the pelts confiscated were 947 beaver, 2 fisher, 89 fox, 8
marten, 32 mink, 501 muskrat, 16 otter, 68 raccoon and 304 weasel.
The following comments, extracted from issues of the Bulletin, concerning
the sales of confiscated articles and furs, will be of interest.
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Those who have any doubts as to the efficiency of the work which is being
done to curb law breaking, or the need for eternal vigilance to protect a common
heritage, would do well to arrange to visit one of the sales of confiscated articles
conducted by the Department and, in viewing the multiplicity of weapons seized
for illegal use, read the story of why conservation is necessary for the perpetuation
of wild life. The rows of firearms stacked so menacingly around the room remind
one forcibly that their late owners failed to play the game, and in doing so not
only broke the law but menaced the rights of others. The weapons include almost
every make and calibre of gun, from the toy .22 to the deadly automatic and the
modern "pump." Each of them has a story of its own, a story of deliberate law
breaking and swift retribution.
There are those of ancient vintage which attracted attention, principally
because they lack the refinements of the modern firearm, or because they conjure
up memories which are probably better forgotten.
There is a long line of those efficient little nomads, the- .22. They run the
gamut of make and style, from the cheap little toy to the high-powered repeater.
Most of them are in good shape, but there are a few whose general appearance
shows a lack of care.
In addition to the firearms there is a miscellaneous collection of fishing
rods, reels, lines, baits, minnow pails, axes, flashlights, lanterns, haversacks and
traps. As showing the extent of the illegal destruction which takes place and
as a pleasing commentary on the work of the protective officers, we would add that
there were some 940 traps in the various lots offered in the sale held in September
1938.
The following is a summary of the confiscated articles offered at this sale.
Shotguns 67, rifles 45, .22 rifles 106, fishing poles 39, miscellaneous items 34, traps
940. When it is remembered that in almost every case a fine or alternative gaol
sentence was imposed, in addition to the loss occasioned by the confiscation of equip-
ment, it should be a stern warning that "the way of the transgressor is hard!"
For several days in February, 1939, the Department vault and storage room
resembled a fur warehouse. Exposed for the inspection of buyers was the largest
collection of confiscated pelts the Department has ever handled in any one year. This
collection included the following pelts: —
Beaver 993
Muskrats 778
Fisher 3
Lynx 2
Otter 14
Fox (cross) 9
Marten 14
Mink 35
Weasel 96
Squirrel 87
Raccoon 62
Skunk 2
Wolves 3
Fox (red) 25
In addition to this record assortment of confiscated furs there was a collection
of silver fox pelts together with some red fox and mink from the Fur Farm, and
a small mixed group taken in Provincial Parks and included by the Department
of Lands and Forests.
For the benefit of prospective buyers the furs were open to inspection for
four days, and during that period they were constantly being turned over, examined
and appraised by keen-eyed, shrewd buyers. Bidding for the various lots was in
the form of sealed tender, so that those interested had to go over them carefully
and determine finally what they were worth to them in a competitive market. The
result of the sale surpassed the expectations of the Department and added considerably
to the annual revenue. For example, the 993 beaver pelts brought a total of $14,535.
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while the balance of the seized furs sold for $1,700.85. The confiscated furs therefore
brought a total of $16,235.85.
Around this brief mention of the fur sale is a story of never-ending vigilance
on the part of the field force; that silent but effective group of Overseers whose
mission is to enforce the Game and Fisheries Laws and see that the wild life
resources of the Province are protected from the pilfering propensities of the poacher.
A glance at the summary of confiscated pelts given herein will convince the
most indifferent that there is a real necessity for such keen watchfulness. Take
the case of the beaver for example. These animals were destroyed during a year
when there was a completely closed season on beaver, and in addition a large
percentage of them had been purchased from poachers by unscrupulous fur buyers,
who, in turn, would be forced to dispose of them by further dishonest manipulations.
The irony of these extensive seizures of beaver pelts is that the season was closed
because it was felt that the animals required protection against trapping for a
period, in order to increase their numbers, and the good trapper, realizing that
such a measure was in his own interest, respected the restriction. The poacher,
on the other hand, apparently found in the restriction an opportunity to enlarge
his activities, aided and abetted by certain irresponsible buyers.
As showing the widespread nature of these illegal practices we mention
the fact that 80 beaver came from the Patricia District; 41 from Algoma; 17
from Renfrew and 51 were seized in Toronto. The balance in small numbers came
from all over the Province.
The same general remarks apply with regard to the other furs. They were
seized for a variety of reasons, but in all cases breaches of the act were involved.
It is but fair to add that, despite this tale of unlawful taking, the score
is not all bad. It has been noted, for example, that some 32 beaver accidentally
caught in traps set for other legal fur, were forwarded to the Department for
disposal, by the trappers themselves.
Notwithstanding the fact that the general public is becoming more informed
on the value of wild life and the necessity for ensuring its conservation the poacher
and the illegal taker are still in our midst.
As a result of the vigilance of protective officers we find that during the
year under review there were some 1709 cases of violations prosecuted through
the Courts, and in 1581 of which cases convictions were registered and fines collected
totalling in all the record sum of $26,245.40.
An analysis of these cases shows that Game and Fisheries Overseers were
responsible for the charges in 1510 instances, members of the Provincial Police
Force in 98 cases, Deputy Game Wardens in 21 cases; while co-operative action was
responsible in 80 cases. Particulars of some of the more glaring cases which
were prosecuted through the year are as follows:
(a) Illegal trafficking in partridge, in the County of Carleton, convicted and
fined $1,000 and costs;
(b) Illegal possession, sale and purchase of partridge, in the County of
Carleton, three persons involved, convictions registered in all cases, total
fines of $400 and costs;
(c) Illegal trafficking in pheasants, in the County of Middlesex, 34 birds seized,
convicted and fined $340 and costs;
(d) Unlawful killing of Hungarian partridge, in the County of Wentworth,
10 birds seized, convicted and fined $100 an costs;
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(e) Possession of more than legal catch of pheasants, on Pelee Island, 16 birds
seized, convicted and fined $160 and costs;
(f) Taking excessive numbers of undersized speckled trout, in the District
of Parry Sound, five persons apprehended, — convicted, penalties in all totalled
$123.75;
(g) Taking excessive numbers of undersized speckled trout, in the County of
Renfrew, three persons apprehended, — convicted, total penalties in each of
the three cases $126.75; and
(h) Illegal possession of beaver, involving a licensed fur dealer, in Northern
Ontario, — 23 charges, convicted and fined a total of $16,395 or in default
of payment to be confined for two years and six months, less one day in
a Reformatory. In addition to this sentence there were seized from the
offender, 444 beaver, 10 otter, 7 marten, 1 fisher, 2 mink, 2 cross fox and
31 muskrat.
We ask the sportsmen to notice two things in connection with these various
offences. The first is that no stone is being left unturned by the Department
to bring the law-breakers to justice. The second is that illegal depredations, if
unchecked, may assume extensive proportions; as is evidenced by details of the
cases above noted.
THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
The vast waters of our Province, among the finest in the world, constitute
our most widely distributed recreational agencies, and their importance from the
recreational and health standpoints is of immeasurable value to our people. This
attraction lies in the entrancing beauty of our lakes and streams, and the excellent
fishing which they provide. The development and maintenance of these game fishing
interests in a practical manner is one of the primary functions of the Department.
Ontario's commercial fishing industry is also of considerable economic im-
portance, and in point of annual marketed value of fresh water fish, Ontario stands
first among the Provinces. In appendices 3 and 4, information pertaining to this
valuable enterprise is compiled for reference purposes.
In its wider and truer meaning fish culture is closely linked to aquatic
biology, physics, commercial fishing and angling, and it is difficult to give a comprehen-
sive definition of the term. However, for all practical purposes it may be said that a
progressive fish culturist is one who measures his success in terms of the good
fishing resulting from his labours, and in view of the results being achieved in
this connection fish culturists should be very optimistic about future possibilities
in this field.
During the regular open seasons there is a tremendous drain on the fish
supply, particularly in the more populated areas where waters are more readily
accessible. The menace of over-fishing which is one of the major causes of depletion
has become more seriously apparent since the development of the automobile and
motor boat; these two useful contrivances have made it possible for a much larger
percentage of the population to go fishing. In view of these conditions, a practical
restocking policy is followed by such regulations and practical measures as are
consistent with the conservation of the fisheries. The eminently reasonable aim of
fish laws is to ensure a plentiful supply of commercial and game-fish to future
generations of Canadians.
Conservation means wise use. Fish do not grow by magic and in order to
obtain larger and better fish, they must be permitted to grow and reproduce normally;
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39 23
nature is wonderfully endowed with recuperative powers and, if given a chance,
it is surprising how quickly fish will multiply under properly balanced conditions
of food and shelter. On the other hand, if a suitable number of adults is not
left to reproduce we should not be surprised to find an increase of undesirable
species. It is wise for fishermen to remember that a body of water produces a
definite number of adult fish, depending on the food, natural enemies and possi-
bilities of reproduction. Fishermen generally are beginning to realize the importance
of this fundamental factor and many are content with the minimum, rather than
the maximum creel limit.
Within the compass of this report the salient features of the progress made
during the year in connection with fish cultural practice are set forth.
HATCHERIES AND REARING STATIONS
During the year the Department operated twenty-six hatcheries and rearing
stations. The actual number of hatcheries operated was twenty; trout rearing stations,
fifteen; and bass rearing stations, five.
New and additional facilities for hatching and rearing fish during the fiscal
year 1938-39 were provided for in a very satisfactory manner as follows:
1. Additional raceways were constructed at the Dorion trout rearing station.
Thunder Bay district, to increase the carrying capacity of the hatchery.
2. A trout rearing station subsidiary to the Glenora fish hatchery was operated
on Waring's creek. Prince Edward county.
3. Two additional ponds were constructed at the Chatsworth trout rearing
station and a subsidiary station was developed on Nicholson's creek, in the same
vicinity.
4. Construction of a new trout rearing station at Hill's Lake, vicinity of Charlton,
district of Temiskaming, was commenced.
5. Three additional bass ponds, making a total of five, were completed at
Sandfield, Manitoulin Island; four of these ponds were used for wintering trout
in 1938-39.
6. Five bass ponds and a pickerel hatchery were constructed at Skeleton
lake, vicinity of Ulls water, Muskoka district; four of these ponds were used for
wintering trout in 1938-39.
7. Three ponds were completed at Deer lake, vicinity of Havelock, Peterborough
county, for the rearing of black bass, maskinonge and forage fish; a hatchery for
maskinonge and pickerel was also completed at this site. Two of these ponds were
used for wintering trout in 1938-39.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
Speckled Trout:
The policy of rearing large numbers of trout to yearling and older stages
for distribution to suitable public waters which require restocking was vigorously
pursued. The following comparative distribution figures show the successful results
obtained and the definite progress that is being made:
1936 557,270
1937 1,167,073
1938 2,083.538
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In addition, 373,314 fingerlings were planted, slightly fewer than the number
planted the previous year. The policy of planting fry and small fingerlings will
be abandoned, unless a surplus is available or crowded conditions warrant distribution.
Brown Trout:
The Department continued the policy of rearing brown trout yearlings for re-
stocking suitable streams in southern Ontario, and the results are most encouraging.
During the year approximately 59,600 sizeable yearlings were planted and plans
are under way for increasing facilities for handling larger numbers of this species.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead trout —
Excellent progress was made in connection with the rearing of rainbow trout
fingerlings; an increased production of 205.5 per cent was obtained. In addition
to this 6,727 yearling and adult rainbows were distributed.
(b) Kamloops trout —
The advantages to be derived from planting this variety of rainbow trout in
sipring fed lakes, which show similar characteristics to those inhabited by speckled
trout, were set forth in the previous report of the Department.
Twenty-five thousand eight hundred fingerlings of this variety were planted
during the year. As soon as a plan can be developed, a substantial number of
yearlings will be planted annually in conjunction with surplus fingerlings which can-
not be carried over winter. Annual egg production will depend on a domesticated
breeding stock which is being developed.
Lake Trout:
The total distribution of eyed eggs and fry was approximately 28 per cent
greater than the previous year. There was a decrease of 33 per cent in the distri-
bution of fingerlings.
The successful collection of large numbers of lake trout eggs in the fall
of the year by commercial fishermen working in conjunction with the Department's
spawntaking crews, depends primarily on weather conditions. It is obvious that
the technique governing the successful collection of spawn cannot be carried out
in a most satisfactory manner during rough and stormy weather on the Great
Lakes. Conditions of this nature existed during the spawning season of lake trout
in 1938.
Whitefish:
There was a decrease of approximately 15.6 per cent in the distribution of
whitefish fry as compared with that of the previous year; this was due to two
factors, firstly the spawntaking harvest in the vicinities of Kenora and Fort Frances
was greatly reduced on account of an early freeze-up, and secondly the spawning
run of fish in the Bay of Quinte area, Lake Ontario, was much smaller than in
previous years.
Herring:
The distribution of herring fry was more than nine times that of the preceding
year. This distribution was due in the main to the increased collection of spawn
on the Bay of Quinte area. Lake Ontario. Small collections were made on Lake
Erie but, as was pointed out in the previous year's report, there are many hopeful
signs of the return of the herring or Cisco in Lake Erie. The reason for this may
be ascribed, in part at least, to the effective legislation imposed and enforced In
regard to commercial fishing in this lake. If the present population of herring in
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the lake is permitted to spawn once, and preferably twice, before being taken
commercially there will, undoubtedly, be a very decided increase in the production
of this valuable commercial fish. As was pointed out in the introduction to this
report, nature is wonderfully endowed with recuperative powers and if given a
chance it is amazing what can be accomplished. Much larger collections of spawn
are anticipated in succeeding years.
Yellow Pickerel:
There was an increased distribution of fry amounting to approximately 3 per
cent over that of the previous year.
Following the usual practice approximately two million eyed eggs were handled
by the Sparrow Lake hatchery, the fry being distributed over suitable areas in Sparrow
lake.
8 mall -mouthed Black Bass:
Although there was a decrease of 37 per cent in the distribution of small-
mouthed black bass fry, this was greatly offset by an increase of 19.7 per cent in
the distribution of fingerlings.
There was also an increased distribution of yearlings and older bass, amounting
to 1,840, as a result of bass harvesting from the following lakes, — Cook's lake (Thunder
Bay district), Lake Charlotte (Renfrew county) and Little Gull lake (Haliburton
county).
Larg-e-monthed Black Bass:
Following the practice of previous years, one pond was set apart at Mount
Pleasant for the culture of large-mouthed black bass. This pond produced 57,500 fry
and 8,035 fingerlings. Since this pond is only 0.64 acres in area, the production
record is an excellent one.
Yellow Perch:
During the spawning run of the perch in the spring of the year, spawn is
collected by commercial fishermen working in conjunction with our own hatchery,
officers. This work is conducted at the west end of Lake Erie near Kingsville.
The eggs are cultured in the hatchery in that vicinity and the resulting fry are
widely distributed over natural spawning areas in the lake. This work is of the
utmost importance considering the commercial value of perch fishing in Lake Erie.
The distribution of perch fry was over six times that of the previous year, due
to a much larger spawning run of this desirable species in the vicinity in question.
Blue Pickerel:
The blue pickerel is of considerable commercial value in Lake Erie and it is
desirable to supplement the work of nature in maintaining production on a proper
basis. For the second season spawn was collected at the west end of Lake Erie
and approximately one-half million blue pickerel fry were liberated.
Masklnonfire:
The distribution of maskinonge fry was approximately 376.5 per cent greater
than the previous year.
The difficulties attending the collection of spawn and the culture of this
important species were pointed out in the previous year's report. This report also
gave an outline of the work being done by New York, Wisconsin and Minnesota along
similar lines. The ways and means by which the Department is undertaking to
maintain this important species are, —
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1. Restriction of bag limit and number of days' fishing.
2. Protection of the normal population in sanctuary areas. The report for
1936-37 contains an explanation of the purpose of such sanctuaries.
3. The planting of fry in suitable areas.
4. Further studies regarding the possibilities of rearing fry to the fingerling
stage.
With reference to item 4. facilities will be provided during the next fiscal
year to experiment on a proper basis with the culture of maskinonge from the fry
to the fingerling stage. For this purpose, a hatchery and pond have been constructed
at the outlet of Deer Lake, Belmont township, Peterborough county. The water
supply is adequate and of suitable composition. A minnow pond for the production
of forage fish for the growing maskinonge is also available at this site.
In addition to this, a large natural area will be set aside in the Kawartha lakes
district for the purpose of studying in an experimental way the conditions required
for the successful propagation of maskinonge in natural areas.
CLOSED WATERS
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and
propagation of fish, the following water areas were closed during the year, April
1, 1938, to March 31, 1939:
BERRY CREEK, tributary to Long Bay, Lake of the Woods, District of Kenora.
BLACK DUCK LAKE,
Township of Harvey, County of Peterborough.
CHEMONG LAKE (Portion)
Township of Emily, County of Victoria.
CHEMONG LAKE (Portion)
Township of Smith, County of Peterborough.
DUCK PONDS,
Township of Dummer, County of Peterborough.
GOOSE LAKE,
Township of Fenelon, County of Victoria.
GOOSE LAKE,
Townships of Fenelon and Somerville, County of Victoria.
KATCHIWANO LAKE.
Township of Smith, County of Peterborough.
LITTLE MUD LAKE (Chemong Lake)
Township of Smith, County of Peterborough.
McVICAR'S CREEK,
Within limits of city of Port Arthur, Thunder Bay District.
SEARIGHT'S BAY (North River),
Township of Belmont, County of Peterborough.
SOUTH BAY (Stony Lake),
Township of Dummer, County of Peterborough.
TAYLOR'S BAY and MUNN'S BAY (Belmont Lake),
Township of Belmont, County of Peterborough.
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WHITEFISH, BASS and CLEAR LAKES,
Township of Humphrey, District of Parry Sound, during the period January 23,
1939, to April 30, 1939.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH
Between December 16, 1938, and February 4, 1939, twenty-seven hoop nets
were operated for the removal of ling from waters located as follows:
(a) In Leeds County — Rideau Lake, Bass Lake, Red Horse Lake, Outlet of
Charleston Lake and Barker's Creek.
(b) In Lanark County — Bennett's Lake and the Tay River.
The total number of ling taken was 3,305; the average weight of the ling was
.6 pounds, making the total weight of ling removed 19,830 pounds, or approximately
10 tons.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Biological surveys were conducted in Thunder Bay district on Northern Light
lake, located approximately twelve miles south of Moss township, on the Pigeon
river, Whitefish lake (Strange township). Arrow lake, located approximately six
miles south-west of Strange township, and Shikag lake, which is located about
seven miles north-east of Tannin. The purpose of these studies was to determine
the advisability of permitting commercial fishing on these lakes. Studies were
conducted on the following waters, with a view to determining their suitability as
sanctuaries for black bass, namely, — Hart lake, Stonehouse lake. Upper Rock lake,
Lower Rock lake, located in the township of Storrington, Frontenac county; Crow
lake (Crow's Nest lake) and Lake Opinicon, township of South Crosby, Leeds county;
and a water area in the vicinity of Portland, Big Rideau lake, township of Bastard,
Leeds county.
Dams on the Beaver river, township of CoUingwood, Grey county, and at the
outlet of West Lake, township of Hallowell, Prince Edward county, were examined
with reference to the obstructions created by these dams to migratory fish, and
the biological effects resulting from changing water levels in the latter instance.
Pollution surveys were conducted on a branch of the Aux Sables river, town-
ship of Usborne, Huron county; Smith creek, township of Blenheim, Oxford county,
and the St. Lawrence river, vicinity of Cornwall, Stormont county.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Biology,
University of Toronto, continued field and laboratory studies of lakes and streams
in Algonquin Park during 1938-39, and the following is a concise account of this
important work:
"The anglers fishing in the Park have cooperated by suipplying a record of
the fish which they caught. Such information is now available from a good many
lakes for the last four years.
Year
Number of lakes for which anglers have reported
Number of lake trout recorded
936
1937
1938
1939
23
51
41
59
414
3856
3083
4681
In addition to recording the number of fish caught, the anglers also report the
size of the fish and the length of time it takes to catch a given number. It was
found that the length of the lake trout caught varied from a minimum of eight inches
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to a maximum of thirty-six inches. In some lakes the lake trout are mostly small
and in other lakes there is a preponderance of large trout, while still other lakes
contain trout varying in size from small to large. The size and number of trout
in a lake is related to the available food and the amount of fishing. This infor-
mation which has been made available as a result of the cooperation of the anglers
and the biological investigations of these lakes has made possible the carrying out
of experiments of value in fish culture.
In these lakes where the food scarcity is the controlling factor arrangements
are being carried out to improve the food condition by introducing small food fish.
In those lakes where excessive fishing is depleting the stock of lake trout, two kinds
of experiments are being undertaken. In lakes adjacent to the highway or in the
vicinity of cottages trout of different sizes are being planted and the result of
this stocking will be determined. Some lakes which are remote from the highway
are being closed to fishing in alternate years and the improvement in fishing resulting
from this closure is being measured during the years in which those lakes are open
to angling.
It is most desirable to have definite information on the trout population in
lakes. The particular relationship of White lake to Big Trout lake in Algonquin
Park makes it possible to ascertain the trout population of White lake for at least
part of the year. These two lakes are joined by a narrow channel 100 feet wide
and about 12 feet deep. White lake with an area of 1040 acres and a maximum depth
of 40 feet has lake trout in it during the fall, winter and spring. As it warms up
during the summer, the lake trout all move out into Big Trout lake which is much
deeper. In the spring and early summer of 1939 all of the lake trout moving out of
White lake were captured in a fyke net, measured, and released into Big Trout lake.
By July 10 all of the lake trout had moved out. There were 813 between twelve
and twenty-eight inches in length, with a total weight of about 2177 pounds. Thus
White lake with an area of 1040 acres supports about one lake trout of fishable
size per acre or about two pounds of available lake trout per acre.
The young speckled trout in Algonquin Park waters live in the stream during
the early part of their lives. Here they feed upon aquatic insects. Studies of these
insect populations have given astonishingly large numbers for the production of this
trout food. From May 17 to September 11, 1939, one square yard of water in a
typical trout stream inhabited by trout was found to produce during the summer
550 mayflies, 700 stoneflies, 466 caddis flies and 4,400 blackflies and midges, as well
as some other aquatic insects, all of which constitute excellent trout food.
Bass from some lakes and rivers in the Park have fish parasites. None of
the fish parasites are injurious to man but they are unpleasant for the angler to
find while cleaning the fish. A study of the distribution of these parasites has been
carried out to find where they occur most abundantly. With this information at
hand the danger of transferring parasites from one body of water to another can
be reduced to a minimum.
A small hatchery has been established near Algonquin Park headquarters,
where fish which have been raised in the rearing stations of the Ontario Department of
Game and Fisheries may be held for some time and from where they may be con-
viently distributed to any desired water in the Park."
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The assistance and co-operation rendered during the year, particularly by
Fish and Game Protective Associations and members thereof, have indeed been very
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gratifying and are deeply appreciated. Such valuable cooperation encourages us
in our efforts on behalf of the protection and development of the wild life natural
resources of the Province, in order that those interested may continue to enjoy a
participation in the privilege and healthy excerise which pursuit of the same provides.
Members of the Staff, both the inside and outside service, generally speaking,
have conducted themselves and performed the duties assigned to them in the best
interests of the Department and its varied activities.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
Toronto 2.
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce :
Berry's Lake
Little's Lake
Marl Lake . .
Paddy's Lake
Seep's Lake .
Grey:
Davis Lake
Saugeen River — S. Branch
Sheppard's Lake
Haliburton:
Round Lake
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
Saugeen River
Shouldice Lake
Frontenac:
Clear Lake (Kennebec)
Collins Lake
Cross Lake (Kennebec)
Little Mississagagon . . .
Loughborough Lake . . .
McClintock Lake
Mississagagon Lake . . .
Pine Lake
Rideau Lake
Schooner Lake
Sharbot Lake
Trout Lake
Twin Lakes
9,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
Lincoln:
Jordan Pond
Muskoka:
Kahshe Lake
Norfolk :
Sutton's Pond
FINGERLINGS
Middlesex:
Sydenham River
Nipissing:
Blackwater Lake
Norfolk:
Hunger Lake . . . .
Little Lake
Teeterville Pond
Wentworth :
Hamilton Bay . . .
2,500
5,000
5,000
126x
500
100
100
210
York:
Shadow Lake
xThis number includes twenty-six
5,000
2,025
adults.
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Arran Lake .
Bereford Lake
Boat Lake . . .
Britain Lake
Cameron Lake
Chesley Lake
Cyprus Lake
Gould Lake .
Isaac Lake . .
Lake George .
Miller Lake . .
Pearl Lake . .
Sauble River .
5,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
2,500
5,000
2,500
10,000
15,000
5,000
20,000
5,000
15.000
Haldimand :
Grand River
Haliburton:
Black Lake
Blue Hawk Lake
Davis Lake
Grass Lake
Gull Lake
Head Lake
Hurricane Lake
Kashawigamog Lake
Long Lake (Dysart)
Mink Lake
Misiwabi Lake
Mountain Lake (Minden) . . .
Paradise Lake
Pine Lake
Portage Lake
Unnamed lake (Lutterworth)
West Lake
Wylie's Lake
Halton:
Bronte River
Hastings:
Crow Lake
Crow River
Gunter Lake
Little Salmon Lake
Moira Lake ,
Moira River
Oak Lake
Pine Lake
Wadsworth Lake .
Leeds:
Crow Lake . . .
Sand Lake . . .
Troy Lake . . .
Whitefish Lake
Lincoln:
Twelve Mile Creek
20.000
5,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
2,500
5,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5.000
5,000
5,000
2.500
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Manitoulin:
Big Lake 10,000
Lake Manitou 10,000
Middlesex:
Thames River 10,000
Muskoka:
Bon View Lake 20,000
Bruces Lake 10,000
Deer Lake 10,000
Dickie Lake 10,000
Kahshe Lake 10,000
Lake Muskoka 30,000
MacKay's Lake 10,000
Menominee Lake 20,000
Prospect Lake 20,000
Tookes Lake 10,000
Wood Lake 10,000
Norfolk:
Waterford's Gravel Pit Pond
10,000
Northumberland :
Trent River 5,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 10,000
Oxford:
Thames River *. 10,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 5,000
Stony Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Kempenfeldt Bay 10,000
Lake Couchiching 15,000
Little Lake (Vespra) 10,000
Sparrow Lake 15,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 10,000
Burnt River 5,000
Gull River 5,000
Little Mud Turtle Lake .... 5,000
Mud Turtle Lake 5,000
Pigeon Lake 10,000
Round Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Sturgeon Lake 25,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Alma Lake 500
Appleby Lake 500
Blind River 1,000
Caribou Lake 500
Cummings Lake 1,000
Darrell Lake 1,000
Desbarats Lake
Diamond Lake
Duborne Lake
Gordon Lake
Keichel Lake
Little Bass Lake
Lost Lake
McCarroll's Lake
Mine Lake
Moose Lake
Mud Lake
O'Neill Lake
Pipe Lake
Rock Lake
Stuart Lake
Unnamed lake (U. Tp.) . .
Walker Lake
Bruce:
Clam Lake
Carleton:
Ottawa River
Rideau River
Cochrane:
Baart's Lake
Frontenac:
Canonto Lake
Crotch Lake (Palmerston)
Crow Lake
Elbow Lake
Fourteen Island Lake ....
Long Lake (Portland) ....
Rock Lake (Portland) . . .
St. George's Lake
Sunday Lake
Grenville:
Rideau River
Grey:
Lake Francis
Haliburton:
Canning Lake
Koshlong Lake
Little Mud Turtle Lake . .
Mountain Lake (Dysart) . .
Hastings :
Baptiste Lake
Bass Lake
Lake Louis
Huron:
Maitland River
Lanark:
Bennett's Lake
Black Creek
Christie Lake
Dalhousie Lake
MisslBsippi Lake
500
500
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,500
1,000
2,000
2,000
1.000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
1,000
,000
500
1,000
750
1,000
750
1,000
1,000
500
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
2.000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continned
Lanark — Continued
Pike Lake 1.000
Rideau Lake 1,500
Silver Lake 500
Leeds:
Gananoque Lake 100
St. Lawrence River 100
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake 1,000
Beaver Lake — south 500
Lime Lake 500
Long Lake 1,000
White Lake 1,000
Manitoulin:
Kagawong Lake 3,000
Lilly Lake 3,000
Linda Lake 3,000
Loon Lake 2,000
Mindemoya Lake 2,000
South Bay 2,000
Muskoka:
Burns Lake 1,000
Henshaw Lake 500
Indian River 500
Lake Joseph 500
Lake Rosseau 500
MacKay's Lake 2,000
Musquash River 500
North Lake 1,000
Silver Lake 500
Six Mile Lake 1,000
Sparrow Lake 1,000
Torrance Lake 1,000
Nipissing:
Bear and Poplar Lakes 500
Cache Lake 500
Champlain Lake 500
Finlayson Lake 500
Herridge Lake 1,000
Lake Nipissing 500
Lake Noshonsing 500
Lake Timagami 500
Martin River 500
Moore Lake 500
Shanty Bay (Lake Nipissing) 500
Talon Lake 2,000
Tomiko Lake 500
Trout Lake 500
Turtle Lake 500
Wilson Lake 500
Northumberland:
Rice Lake 1,200
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 500
Arthur Lake 500
Bain Lake 500
Balsam Lake
Bass Lake
Bear Lake
Beaver Lake
Bittern Lake
Blackwater Lake
Canoe Lake
Caribou Lake
Clear Lake (Humphrey) . .
Clear Lake (Patterson) . .
Cole Lake
Commanda Lake
Crane Lake
Deer Lake (Ferrie Tp.) . .
Deer Lake (Lount Tp.) . .
Deer Lake (McKenzie Tp.)
Deer Lake (Mills Tp.)
Deer Lake (Wilson Tp.) . .
Distress River
Doe Lake
Duck Lake
Eagle Lake
Horseshoe Lake
Island Lake
Jack Lake
Key River
Lake of Many Islands ....
Lennon's Lake
Little Long Lake
Loch Urn Lake
Long Lake (Fereruson Tp.)
Long Lake (Wilson Tp.) .
Magnetawan River
Manson Lake
Mary Jane Lake
McVeety Lake
Neighick Lake
Pickerel Lake
Pickerel River
Pigeon Lake
Pine Lake
Portage Lake
Rankin Lake
Restoule Lake
Rosseau Lake
Ruth Lake
Sea Gull Lake
Shawanaga Lake
Shebeshekong Lake
Shoal Lake
Snakeskin Lake
Spring Lake
Star Lake
Stormy Lake
Toad Lake
Trout Lake (Humphrey) .
Turtle Lake
Whitestone Lake
Wilson Lake
Wolf Lake
Wolf River
Woodcock Lake
Peel:
Credit River
500
1,000
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1.000
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
1.000
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Prince Edward:
Consecon Lake 500
Roblins Lake 1,000
West Lake 1,200
Renfrew:
Black Bay 2,000
Foster Lake 500
Green Lake (Radcliffe) 500
Hyde's Bay 1,500
Lake Dore 1,000
LeClaire Lake 1,000
Madawaska River 1,000
Mink Lake 1,000
Ottawa River 2,000
Petawawa River 2,000
Simcoe:
Bass Lake 500
Gloucester Pool 500
Little Lake (Tay) 500
Nottawasaga River 500
Severn River 1,500
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake 3,000
Devils Lake 500
Dry Pine Bay 500
French River 500
Lake Penache 3,000
Ramsay Lake 3,000
AVanapitei Lake 3,000'
Whitson Lake 2,000
Timiskaming:
Babs Lake 1,500
Butler Lake 500
Davis Lake 500
Emerald Lake 500
Granite Lake 500
Sesekinika Lake 1,000
Victoria:
Lake Dalrymple 500
Waterloo:
Conestoga River 1,000
Grand River 600
Paradise Lake 600
York:
Lake Simcoe 1,000
Musselmans Lake 500
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Algoma:
Friendly Lake 120
Gravel Lake 150
Knob Lake 150
Picnic Lake 145
Brant:
Gravel Pit Pond at Scotland 100
Frontenac :
Bob's Lake 100
Clear Lake (Hinchinbrooke) . 100
Clear Lake (Kennebec) .... 40
Crotch Lake (Kennebec) . . 40
Dog Lake 100
Gull Lake 60
Kashwakaniak Lake 25
Mink Lake 25
Mississippi River 25
Otter Lake 50
Rideau Lake 100
Sydenham Lake 50
Haliburton:
Elephant Lake 100
Gull Lake 100
Koshlong Lake 100
Hastings:
Big Salmon Lake 50
Burnt Lake 25
Dickey Lake 38
Gull Lake 50
Jordon Lake 50
Kaminiskeg Lake 100
Lake of Islands 30
Parker Creek 100
West Lake 100
York River 100
Huron:
Maitland River 20
Kenora:
Lake Agimac 140
Lake McNamara 135
Kent:
Lake St. Clair (Mitchell's
Bay) 100
Rondeau Bay 70
Leeds:
Big Rideau Lake 100
Charleston Lake 2()0
Crosby Lake 100
Grippen Lake 100
Little Rideau Lake 100
Newborough Lake 100
Sand Lake 100
St. Lawrence River 100
Traynor Lake 100
Lennox-Addington :
Cedar Lake 100
Otter Lake 50
Weslemkoon Lake 50
Peterborough:
Black Lake 100
Buckhorn Lake 100
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OP FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
PETERBOROUGH— Continued
Chemong Lake 100
Clear Lake 100
Crab Lake 100
Deer Bay 100
Indian River 100
Jack's Lake 100
Katchawanooka Lake 100
Little Cedar Lake • 100
Long Lake 100
Loon Lake 200
Lovesick Lake 100
Sandy Lake 100
Stony Lake 100
Trout Lake 100
White Lake 100
Renfrew:
Calabogie Lake 100
Corry Lake 100
Green Lake (Horton) 175
Moccasin Lake 100
White Lake 100
Stormont:
St. Lav^rrence River 200
Thunder Bay:
Gull Lake 150
Hazlewood Lake 190
Island Lake 150
Loon Lake 150
One Island Lake 165
Shebandowan Lake 220
Williams Lake 50
Victoria:
Sturgeon Lake 100
MASKINONGE
FRY
Frontenac :
Sydenham Lake 15,000
Hastings:
Crow Lake 25,000
Crow River 25,000
Moira Lake 25,000
Moira River 25,000
Sears Lake 10,000
Trent River '. 25,000
Leeds:
St. Lawrence River 10,000
Muskoka:
Kahshe Lake 15,000
Nipissing:
Lake Nipissing 10,000
Shanty Bay — south arm
Lake Nipissing 5,000
Northumberland:
Crow Bay 20,000
Mud Lake 50,000
Rice Lake 100,000
Trent River 115,000
Unnamed Stream at Cod-
rington 10,000
Parry Sound:
Naskoten Lake 5,000
Nipissing Lake 5,000
Restoule Lake 5,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 50,000
Buckhorn Lake 50,000
Chemong Lake 50,000
Clear Lake 290,000
Deer Bay 50,000
Indian River 40,000
Katchawanooka Lake 40,000
Little Lake 15,000
Little Mud Lake 25,000
Lovesick Lake 50,000
Otonabee River 50,000
Pigeon Lake 50,000
Round Lake 25,000
Stony Lake 75,000
Trent River 10,000
White Lake 25,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 30,000
Muscote Bay 55,000
West Lake 10,000
Renfrew:
Corry Lake 5,000
Cushene Lake 5,000
Lafleur Lake 5,000
Maskalonge Lake 5,000
Simcoe :
Gloucester Pool 25,000
Lake Couchiching 25,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 10,000
Thunder Bay:
Lac des Mille Lacs 5,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 50,000
Burnt River 25,000
Dalrymple Lake 15,000
Little Mud Turtle 10,000
Mud Turtle Lake 10,000
Pigeon Lake 150,000
Pigeon River 100,000
Sturgeon Lake 50,000
Young's Lake 15,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 3l8t, 1939— Continued
MASKINONGE— Continued
Welland:
Niagara River
PERCH
FRY
Norfolk:
Waterford Gravel Pit Pond.
5,000
150,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 59,000,000
PICKEREL FRY
Algoma :
Appleby Lake 50,000
Bright Lake 700,000
Clear Lake 250,000
Cummings Lake 250,000
Desbarats Lake 150,000
Echo Lake 12,880,000
Gordon Lake 2,000,000
Little Bass Lake 250,000
Little Basswood Lake 500,000
Little Clear Lake
(Gladstone) 300,000
Little Clear Lake
(Kirkwood) 500,000
Mississagi Lake 1,000,000
Portlock Bay 50,000
Rock Lake 500,000
Brant:
Grand River 250,000
Bruce:
Boat Lake 250,000
Chesley Lake 387,500
Gould Lake 100,000
Isaac Lake 125,000
Sauble River 250,000
Saugeen River 325,000
Teeswater River 100,000
Carleton:
Constance Bay 200,000
Ottawa River 400,000
Rideau River 450,000
Cochrane:
Big Water Lake 100,000
Bobs Lake 200,000
Boulder Lake 100,000
Boundary Lake 100,000
Charlebois Lake 200,000
Mooseen Lake 100,000
Mortimer Lake 200,000
Reid Lake 200,000
Rem] Lake 400,000
Sand Lake 100,000
Small Lake 100,000
Unnamed lake— O'Brien Tp. 150,000
Wilson Lake 200,000
Durham :
Lake Scugog 500,000
Frontenac:
Big Gull Lake 500,000
Bobs Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 500,000
Crow Lake 250,000
Elbow Lake 100,000
Fifth Lake 250,000
Fourteen Island La.ce 300,000
Green Lake 250,000
Jack's Lake 100,000
Kashwakamak Lake 1,250,000
Long Lake (Olden) 100,000
Long Lake (Portland) 300,000
Malcolm Lake 250,000
Marble Lake 250,000
Mink Lake 250,000
Mississagagon Lake 500,000
Mississippi River 1,250,000
Morgan Lake 150,000
Navy Bay 250,000
Norway Lake 250,000
Rock Lake (Portland) 300,000
Salmon River 150,000
Sydenham Lake 350,000
West Rideau Lake 500,000
Grenville:
Nation River 1,000,000
Rideau River 1,250,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 250,000
Haliburton:
Clear Lake 250,000
Sam's Lake 250,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 650,000
Eraser Lake 200,000
Jack Lake 100,000
Lake Louis 200,000
Lime Lake 100,000
Mallard's Lake 200,000
Moira Lake 1,250,000
Moira River 1,250,000
Moxam's Lake 100,000
Trent River 1,250,000
York River 100,000
Kenora:
Big Vermilion Lake 1,000,000
Black Sturgeon Lake 1,250,000
Blindfold Lake 1,250,000
Bowden Lake 1,000,000
Cache Lake 500,000
Lake of the Woods 22,150,000
Lake of Two Mountains . . . 1,000,000
Long Bow Lake 1,250,000
Mack Lake 1,250,000
Marchington Lake 1,000,000
Separation Lake 1,000.000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April Ist, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
PICKEREL FRY— Continued
KENORA— Continued
Spruce Lake 1,000,000
Wabigoon Lake 1,000,000
Winnipeg River 1,000,000
Lanark:
Rennet's Lake 650,000
Black Lake 300,000
Christie Lake 650,000
Dalhousie Lake 800,000
Fournier Mud Lake 100,000
Long Lake 150,000
Lower Rideau 500,000
Mississippi Lake 200,000
Otty Lake 600,000
Patterson's Lake 100,000
Pike Lake 300,000
Rivens Lake 100,000
Widow's Lake 150,000
Leeds :
Bass Lake 600,000
Crosby Lake 500,000
Devil's Lake 150,000
Green Lake 650,000
Higgley Lake 250,000
Little Rideau Lake 1,250,000
Sand Lake 500,000
St. Lawrence River 2,000,000
Traynor Lake 250,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake 500,000
Cedar Lake 400,000
Clare River 750,000
Douglas Lake 150,000
Long Lake 400,000
Mazinaw Lake 800,000
Napanee River 2,500,000
South Beaver Lake 450.000
White Lake 400,000
Lincoln :
Twelve Mile Creek 250,000
Manitoulin:
Falls, and Burnett Lake
150,000
Muskoka:
Allen's Lake 150,000
Axel's Lake 150,000
Bigelow's Lake 150,000
Brandy Lake 200,000
Buck Lake 200,000
Duck Lake 150,000
Gull Lake 300,000
Kahshe Lake 300,000
Lake Muskoka 1,900,000
Long Lake 150,000
Mootes Lake 150,000
Severn River 250,000
Six Mile Lake 250.000
Sparrow Lake eggs 2,012,500
Spence Lake 150,000
Three Mile Lake 300,000
Nipissing:
Bebees Lake 100,000
Bruce Lake 100,000
Champlain Lake . 250,000
Finlayson Lake 200,000
Lake Nipissing 500,000
Lake Nosbonsing 400,000
Lake Timagami 800,000
Little Martin Lake 100,000
Marten Lake 150,000
McPhee Lake 100,000
Talon Lake 600,000
Tilden Lake 350,000
Tomiko Lake 500,000
Upper French River 500,000
Wassi Lake 300,000
Wickstead Lake 100,000
Northumberland:
MacKenzie Channel 1,250,000
Pickerel Bay 1,250,000
Presqu'ile Bay 100,000
Rice Lake 1,250,000
Trent River 6,250,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 200,000
Oxford:
Lakeside Lake 250,000
Lake Lisgar 200,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 300,000
Bass Lake 100,000
Caribou Lake 200,000
Cecebe Lake 250,000
Clear Lake 100,000
Commanda Lake 200.000
Crane Lake 200,000
Deer Lake (Ferrie) 200,000
Deer Lake (MacKenzie) 250,000
Doe Lake 200,000
Duck Lake 100,000
Footes Lake 100,000
Isabella Lake 400.000
Jack Lake (Armour) 100,000
Jack's Lake (Mills) 100.000
Key River 400.000
Lake of Many Islands 200.000
Lake Rosseau 850,000
Lennon's Lake 100,000
Little Long Lake 100,000
Long Lake 100,000
Loon Bay 400.000
Magnetawan River 1,100.000
Manitowaba Lake 200.000
McKeown Lake 100.000
Milton Lake 100,000
Minerva Lake 150,000
Neighick Lake 200,000
Oastler Lake 500.000
Otter Lake 700,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
37
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
PICKEREL FRY— Continued
Parry Sound — Continued
Owl Lake 200,000
Pickerel Lake 200,000
Pickerel River 200,000
Pigeon Lake 100,000
Restoule Lake 200,000
Ruth Lake 200,000
Shawanaga Lake 350,000
Shebeshekong Lake 200,000
Shoal Lake 100.000
Squaw Lake 200,000
Stewart's Lake 150,000
Stormy Lake 100,000
Whitestone Lake 200,000
Wilson Lake 100,000
Wolf River 200,000
Peterborough :
Belmont Lake 1,250,000
Little Cedar Lake 250,000
Little Lake 200,000
Long Lake 1,000,000
Loon Lake 200,000
Otonabee River 800,000
Rice Lake 1,000,000
Trent River 1,000,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 33,360,000
Consecon Lake 1,250,000
East Lake 540,000
West Lake 750,000
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake 5,000,000
Lake of the Woods 1,000,000
One-Sided Lake 2,500,000
Rainy Lake 31,000,000
Sabaskong Bay 4,000,000
Steeprock Lake 1,000,000
Renfrew:
Aird's Lake 250,000
Black Bay 350,000
Blackfish Bay 100,000
Constant Lake 250,000
Cushene Lake 100,000
Golden Lake 250,000
Greenan Lake 200,000
Hurd's Lake 200,000
Joe's Lake 100,000
Madawaska River 1,350,000
Maskalonge Bay 200,000
Meilleur's Bay 100,000
Muskrat Lake 200,000
Ottawa River 250,000
Petawawa River 350,000
Pike Lake 50,000
Round Lake 100,000
Snake Lake 100,000
White Lake (McNab) 550,000
White Lake (Raglan) 250,000
York River 500.000
Russell:
Castor River 1.250,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 1,000,000
Little Lake 150,000
Nottawasaga River 100,000
Severn River 375,000
Sturgeon Bay 400,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 1,250,000
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake 750.000
Birch Lake 250.000
Dry Pine Bay (French River) 1,000,000
LaCloche Lake 750,000
Lake Penache 1.000.000
Long Lake 750,000
Onaping Lake 500,000
Raft Lake 250,000
Ramsay Lake 1,000,000
Unnamed Lake 250,000
Wanapitei Lake 1,000,000
Washagami Lake 1,000,000
Thunder Bay:
One-sided Lake 250,000
Whitefish Lake 500,000
Timiskaming:
Bass Lake 250,000
Gillies Lake 200,000
Gowganda Lake 400,000
Granite Lake 200,000
Hound Chutes 200,000
Kenogami Lake 300,000
Lady Evelyn Lake 200,000
Lake Timiskaming 400,000
Long Lake 400,000
Net Lake 200,000
Ottese Lake 200,000
Portage Lake 200,000
Rib Lake 400.000
Sesekinika Lake 200.000
Sharpe Lake 200,000
Wendigo Lake 400,000
Victoria:
Dalrymple Lake 225,000
Little Turtle Lake 450,000
Long Lake 250,000
Young's Lake 200,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 500,000
Great Lakes:
North Channel 17,550.000
Georgian Bay 1,000.000
Lake Huron 13,500,000
Lake Ontario 1,350,000
BLUE PICKEREL FRY
Lake Erie 500,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
WATERS
BROWN TROUT
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant:
Gravel Pit Pond
Whiteman's Creek
Bruce:
Crane River
Lockerby Creek
Park Head Creek
Plum Creek
Saugeen River
Snake Creek
Spring Creek
Sucker Creek
Vogt's Creek
Elgin:
Big Creek
Little Otter
Grey:
Big Head River
Keough Creek
Maxwell's Creek
Potawatami River
Saugeen River
Stony Creek
Styx River
Sydenham River
Weatherspoon Creek
Haldlmand:
Rogers Creek
Halton:
Sixteen Mile Creek
Hastings:
Beaver Creek
Squire's Creek
Huron:
Nine Mile River
Wroxeter Dam-Maitland
River
Middlesex:
Medway Creek
Pond Mills
Norfolk :
Young's Creek
Northumberland :
Bowen's Pond
Coles Pond
Dudley's Pond
Ontario:
Chubtown Creek
100
1,000
1,200
500
400
700
1,800
1,500
900
750
750
1,500
1,400
1,200
300
600
900
6,750
300
2,250
1,515
300
700
500
2,000
1.000
1,200
200
1,000
1,000
300
100
85
100
400
Perth:
Upper Avon River 1,200
Peterborough:
Baxter Creek 1,000
Cavan Stream 1,000
Deer Bay Creek 1,000
Eel's Creek 1,000
Jack's Creek 1,000
Mississauga Creek 1,000
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga River 3,400
Waterloo:
Bridgeport Dam 100
Dentinger Creek 750
Wellington:
Speed River 1,200
Wilson Creek 250
Wentworth :
Bronte River 1,800
York:
Humber River 7,100
Sales — Demonstration and pro-
pagation purpose 2,592
LAKE TROUT
FRY
Frontenac:
Brule Lake 20,000
Buckshot Lake 30,000
Camp Lake 10,000
Crow Lake 20,000
Green Lake 10,000
Grindstone Lake 10,000
Kaswakamak Lake 26,000
Loughborough Lake 35,000
Mackie Lake 10,000
Mississagagon Lake 30,000
Mosquito Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 25,000
Schooner Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 25,000
Wolfe Lake 30,000
Hastings:
Bass Lake 10,000
Big Salmon Lake 15,000
Burnt Lake 5,000
Cedar Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 10,000
Devil Lake 5,000
Dickey Lake 20,000
Eagle Lake 20,000
Gunter Lake 10,000
Jamieson Lake 12,500
La Valley Lake 10,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
39
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Hastings — Continued
Lake of Islands 10,000
Lake St. Peter 22,500
Little Salmon Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Dungannon) . . 7,500
O'Grady Lake 7,500
Papineau Lake 17,500
Wadsworth Lake 10,000
Lanark:
Rideau Lake 40,000
Silver Lake 15,000
Leeds :
Big Rideau 55,000
Charleston Lake 45,000
Devil Lake 25,000
Lower Beverley Lake 7,500
Red Horse Lake 10,000
Lennox- Addington :
Bark Lake 5,000
Elbow Lake 5,000
Finch Lake 5,000
Little Weslemkoon Lake 20,000
Otter Lake 15,000
Thirty Island Lake 5,000
Weslemkoon Lake 30,000
White Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Catchacoma Lake 10,000
Gull Lake 10,000
Jack's Lake 10,000
Little Cedar Lake 10,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake (Chandos) 20,000
Trout Lake (Burleigh) 10,000
Renfrew:
Trout Lake 10,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 325,000
North Channel 155,000
Lake Huron 6,195,000
Lake Ontario 100,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 5,000
Axe Lake 5,000
Basswood Lake 10,000
Belle Lake 5,000
Bull Lake 5,000
Caribou Lake 5,000
Chiblow Lake 10,000
Chub Lake 5,000
Clear Lake (Gould) 10,000
Clear Lake (Scarfe) 5,000
Cooper Lake 10,000
Cummings Lake 10,000
Dalton Lake 25,000
Diamond Lake 4,000
Garden Lake 5,000
Grainery Lake 8,000
Grey Trout Lake 10,000
Hawk Lake 5,000
Hobon Lake 8,000
Howard Lake 5,000
Island Lake (McMahon) 10,000
Jobammeghia Lake 5,000
Lake of the Mountains 15,000
Lonely Lake 10,000
Long Lake 10,000
Long Lake (Patton) 5,000
Martinendale Lake 10,000
McCarroll's Lake 4,000
Megginson Lake 10,000
Patton Lake 10,000
Pickerel Lake 5,000
Rainbow Lake 10,000
Rand Lake 5,000
Ranger Lake 15,000
Raw Hide Lake 5,000
Red Deer Lake 5,000
Rose Lake 5,000
Sand Lake 18,000
Tookenay Lake 25,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Wakomata Lake 10,000
Wawa Lake 5,000
Cochrane:
Remi Lake 10,000
Haliburton:
Bear Lake (Guilford) 5,000
Big Boskung Lake 10,000
Crooked Lake 20,000
Davis Lake 10,000
Drag Lake 35,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
East Lake 5,000
Gull Lake 20,000
Hurricane Lake 5,000
Kashagawigamog Lake 15,000
Kingscote Lake 2,500
Kushog Lake 10,000
Little Boskung Lake 10,000
Little Hawke Lake 10,000
Mountain Lake 5,000
Oblong Lake 5,000
Redstone Lake 10,000
St. Nora's Lake 10,000
South Bay 5,000
Spruce Lake 5,000
Twelve Mile Lake 20,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 10,000
Kaminiskeg Lake 10,000
Limestone Lake 2,500
Long Lake 2,500
Kenora:
Big Vermilion Lake 40,000
Blue Lake 20,000
Cache Lake 20,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Kenora — Continued
Crow Lake 25,000
Cut Stone Lake 20,000
Dogtooth Lake 50,000
Gibbi Lake 20,000
Lake of the Mountain 20,000
Lake of the Woods 360,900
Little Vermilion Lake 40,000
Rice Lake 10,000
Rosamond Lake 20,000
Round Lake 10,000
Sturgeon Lake 20,000
Thunder Lake 20,000
Trout Lake 25,000
Wlllard Lake 50,000
Manitoulin:
Lake Manitou 20,000
Muskoka:
Bella Lake 10,000
Clear Lake (McLean) 5,000
Clear Lake (Rldout) 5,000
Fairy Lake 25,000
Fox Lake 10,000
Haley's Lake 10,000
Heeney Lake 10.000
Indian River 5,000
Lake of Bays 45,000
Lake Joseph 12,500
Long Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Mary Lake 30,000
Muskoka Lake 55,000
Paint Lake 5,000
Peninsula Lake 30,000
Rat Lake 5,000
Rebecca Lake 10,000
Skeleton Lake 20,000
Spring Lake 5,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Vernon Lake 20,000
Walker Lake 10,000
Nipissing:
Cache Lake 3,000
Canoe Lake 3,000
Herridge Lake 10,000
Joe Lake 3,000
Lake of Two Rivers 3,000
Lake Timagami 20,000
Lowell Lake 5,000
McMaster Lake 13,000
Moore's Lake 6,000
Opeongo Lake 2,000
Smoke Lake 3,000
Source Lake 3,000
South Lake (South Tea) . . . 3,000
Talon Lake 20,000
Trout Lake 16,000
Parry Sound:
Bella Lake 10,000
Big Joseph Lake 12,500
Big Loon Lake 5,000
Black Lake 7,500
Davison Lake 10,000
Eagle Lake 15,000
High Lake 7,500
Horn Lake 20,000
Horner's Lake 5,000
Horseshoe Lake 15.000
Lake Memesagamesi 10,000
Lake Rosseau 20,000
Little Lake Joseph 10,000
Little Whitefish Lake 5.000
Loon Bay 5,000
Lorimer Lake 15,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Ruth Lake : . . . 5,000
Salmon Lake 10,000
Spring Lake 10,000
Sucker Lake 15,000
Tea Lake 10,000
Three Legged Lake 10,000
Whitefish Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Loon Lake (Chandos) 10.000
Sandy Lake 5,000
Rainy River:
Ash Bay 13,800
Bad Vermilion 40,000
Burnt Lake 75,000
Crow Lake 90,000
Eva Lake 20.000
Kishkutena Lake 15.000
Narrow Lake 25,000
Pipestone Lake 75,000
Sphene Lake 30,000
Spring Lake 20,000
Steeprock Lake 40,000
Renfrew:
Bark Lake 6,000
Barrys Bay 2,000
Brewster Lake 10.000
Carson Lake 2.000
Centre Lake 9,000
Cross Lake 8,000
Diamond Lake 10,000
Lake Clear 4,000
Long Lake 10.000
Round Lake 5,000
Schaven Lake 5,000
Tea Lake 2,000
Trout Lake 2,000
Tusaw Lake 2,000
Wadsworth Lake 3,000
Slmcoe:
Kemipenfeldt Bay 30.000
Sudbury:
Birch Lake 8,000
Bull Lake 5,000
Ella Lake 10,000
Geneva Lake 10,000
Lake Agnew 10,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Sudbury — Continued
Lake Penache 10,000
Long Lake (Broder) 15,000
Long Lake (Harrow) 10,000
Nelson Lake 10,000
Ramsay Lake 10,000
Second Trout Lake 5,000
Wanapitei Lake 15,000
Windermere Lake 5,000
Windy Lake 10,000
Thunder Bay:
Baril Lake 30,000
Brown Lake 20,000
Lake Nipigon 50,000
Surprise Lake 20,000
Timiskaming:
Anima Nipissing 5,000
Larder Lake 10,000
Montreal River 10,000
Nellie Lake 5,000
Net Lake 5,000
Perry Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Rib Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Twin Lakes 5,000
Watabeag Lake 10,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 30,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 3,285,000
North Channel 150,000
Georgian Bay 2,850,000
Lake Huron 1,220,000
Lake Ontario 25,000
EYED EGGS
Exchange 2,437,000
RAi:VBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma :
Batchawana River 3,000
Chippewa River 3,350
Clear Lake 5,000
Garden River 3,000
Huston Lake 5,000
Jobammeghia Lake 500
Keegos Lake 5.000
Mississagi River 10,000
Montreal River 18,000
North Lake 5,000
Serpent River 2,000
Snowshoe Creek 5,000
West Lake 5,000
White River 10,000
Bruce:
Sauble River 10,000
Dufferin:
Nottawasaga River 17,600
Pine River 10,000
Grey:
Saugeen River 20,000
Haliburton:
Burnt Lake 20.000
McFadden's Lake 10,000
North Lake 5,000
Muskoka:
Indian River 10,000
Long Lake 10,000
Norfolk:
Black Creek 5,000
North Creek 5,000
Patterson's Creek 5,000
Young's Creek 1,000
Renfrew:
Coldwater River 10,000
Kempenfeldt Bay 10,000
Lake Simcoe & Brough's
Creek 30,000
Sturgeon River 20,000
Sudbury:
Nelson River 5,000
Onaping River 5,000
Unnamed Lake —
Ermatinger Tp 5,000
Windermere Lake 5,000
Wellington:
Saugeen River 10,000
York:
number River 10,000
Sales — Demonstration and pro-
pagation purposes 3,150
YEARLINGS and ADULTS
Elgin:
St. Thomas Reservoir 1,000
Grey:
Saugeen River 800
Simcoe:
Sturgeon River 2,600
Sales — Demonstration and pro-
pagation purposes 2,327
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
KAMLOOPS TROUT
FINGERLINGS and ADULTS
Muskoka:
Waseosa Lake
Nipissing:
Lake Timagami
Parry Sound:
Bernard Lake
Poole Lake
Miscellaneous:
Demonstration and propaga-
tion purposes
ATLANTIC SALMON
YEARLINGS
Bruce:
Gillies Lake
SPECKLED TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma :
Batchawana River
Big Stony Lake
Blue Lake (ID.-IC.)
Boundary Lake
Burns Lake (176)
Carp River
Chippewa River — north
Christman Lake
Fern Lake
Horseshoe Lake
Iron River
Island Lake (Aweres)
Island Lake (McMahon) . . . .
Little White River
Loon Lake (Deroche)
McDonald Creek
Pancake River
Robertson Lake
Root River
Stony Portage
Trout Lake (Aweres)
Unnamed Lake (Lascelles) .
Vixon Lake
Wartz Lake
Weashkog Lake
White Bear Lake
Durham:
Ganaraska River
Elgin:
Almond Creek
7,800
4,000
7,000
7,000
21
4,800
6.000
5,000
5,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
3,000
1,000
6,000
12,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
1,000
6,000
6.000
6.000
5.000
6,000
1,500
3,000
6,000
6.000
1,000
3.000
1,000
Haliburton :
Bear Lake 4.000
Fletcher Lake 4.000
McFadden Lake 4.000
Round Lake 4.000
Muskoka:
Axel's Creek 4,000
Bella Lake 4,000
Bradford Creek 4.000
Clear Lake 2.000
Fax Lake 4.000
Long Lake 4.000
Martin Lake 4.000
Mary Lake 4.000
Muskoka River 4.000
Peninsula Lake 2,000
Rebecca Lake 4.000
Red Chalk Lake 2,000
Rill Lake 4,000
Vernon Lake tributary
creeks 2,000
Norfolk:
Big Creek 3,000
Kent Creek 3.000
Stony Creek 3,000
Parry Sound:
Clear Lake (Perry) 4,000
Sand Lake 5.000
Renfrew:
Westmeath Creek 614
Simcoe:
Black Creek 200
Thunder Bay:
Allen Lake 1,000
Big MacKenzie River 5,000
Blind Creek 5.000
Brule Creek 2.500
Cedar Creek 2.500
Clegg Lake 1,000
Coldwater River 5,000
Deception Lake 6,000
Elgin Lake 3,000
Gerow Lake 2,500
Half Moon Lake 3.000
Kaministiquia River 10,000
Kenney Lake 2.500
King Lake 2,500
Lake Hilma 1,000
Legault Lake 2.500
Lost Lake 3.000
Mclntyre River 6.000
Mileage 5— Cahill 5.000
Mirror Lake 5.000
Moonshine Lake 3.000
Moose Creek 5.000
Neebing River 6,000
Nipigon River 18,000
North Enders Stream 5.000
Pearl River 5.000
Pitch Creek 5,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
43
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Thunder Bay— Continued
Thunder Bay 1,000
Trout Creek 5,000
Trout Lake (Stirling) 10,000
Upper Pass Lake 10,000
York:
Sales — Demonstration and pro-
pagation purposes 6,000
EYED EGGS
York:
Demonstration purposes
YEARLINGS
1,000
Algoma:
Achigan Creek 2,000
Achigan Lake 2,400
Agawa River 4,800
Alva Lake 1.600
Anjigami Creek 1,600
Arnill Creek 1.500
Aubinadong Lake 2,000
Austin Lake 1,250
Baker's Lake 1.000
Baltimore Lake 1.000
Bamagesic Lake 1,600
Basswood Lake 3,200
Batchawana River 12,000
Birch Lake 1,000
Blue Lake (near Thessalon) 1,600
Boundary Lake 1,500
Boyles Creek 3,200
Bridgeland River 5,000
Burns Lake 2,500
Burnt Island Lake 1,000
Burrough's Lake 3,200
Caldwell Lake 800
Camp 8 Bay 2,000
Camp 8 Creek 3,000
Camp Lake 1,000
Canoe Lake 1,000
Cedar Creek 1,000
Chiblow Lake 1,000
Chipman Lake 2,000
Chippewa River North 12,000
Chippewa River South 12,000
Chub Lake 2,000
Clear Lake 4,000
Coffey Creek 2,500
Coldwater Creek 2,000
Copp Lake 1,000
Crooked Lake 4,000
Darriel Creek 1,000
Deer Lake 3.000
Devils Lake 2,000
Echo Lake 1,000
Fern Lake 1,000
Garden Lake 4,000
Goulais River 3,000
Gravel Lake 5,700
Grey Trout Lake 1,000
Guest Lake 1.000
Harmony Creek 2,500
Harmony River 3,600
Hawk Lake 1,600
Hayden Lake 3,000
Hearst Lake 2,500
Hoath Lake 500
Hobon Lake 2,400
Horn Lake 1.000
Horse Lake 1.250
Horseshoe Lake 1,400
Howard Lake 1.000
Hubert Lake 2,400
Island Lake (176) 3,000
Island Lake (McMahon) 5,000
Jackfish River 3,250
Jarvis Lake 2,000
Jimmie Lake 3,200
Jobammeghia Lake 1,600
Jones Creek 5,000
Kashawong River 2,500
Kelly's Lake 750
Khora Lake 2,000
Lafoe Creek 3,200
Lake Maude 1,900
Laughing Lake 2,000
Little Island Lake 8,000
Little Thessalon River 3,200
Little White River 3,000
Lonely Lake 6,800
Long Lake (Aweres) 3,000
Long Lake (Jarvis) 4,000
Long Lake (Meredith) 9,800
Loon Lake (Deroche) 1,400
Loon Lake (Kirkwood) 1,600
Loon Lake (24-R.13) 1,600
Loonskin Lake 2,400
Lower Island Lake 4,000
Marion Lake 1,250
McCormick's Lake 1,600
McCrea Creek 2,500
Mclntyre Lake 750
McLeod's Creek 1,250
McVeigh Creek 1,600
Merchant Lake 1.000
Meshagami Lake 2,800
Michipicoten River 6,400
Mile 58 Lake 1,600
Mongoose Lake 2,400
Moose Lake (Wells) 2,500
Moose Lake (25-R.13) 2,400
Mountain Lake (188) 800
Mountain Lake (McMahon) 500
Mountain Lake (1-A.U.) ... 2,000
Mud Creek (Vankoughnet) . 7,600
Mud Lake (l.A.) 1,000
Newcomb's Lake 3,000
Newt Lake 1,000
Nixon Lake 1,000
Obakamiga River 2,000
Paquette Lake 2,000
Pearl Lake 600
Pine Lake (Aweres) 5,500
Pine Lake (24-R-13) 4,800
Pine or Prugh Lake (25 R.) 1,600
Pinkney Lake 1,600
Prospect Lake 3,200
Rand Lake 1,600
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April Ist, 1938, to March Slst, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Algoma— Continued
Ranger Lake
Rapid River
Reserve Lake
Richardson Creek
Robertson Lake
Root River
Round Lake (Aweres) . . .
Round Lake (l.A)
Round Lake (Grassett) . .
Sand Lake
Sand Lake Creek
Sand River
Sausabic Lake
Saymo Bay
Saymo Lake
Seventeen Mile Creek
Shekak River
Shumka Lake
Speckled Trout Lake (176)
Speckled Trout Lake
(28-R.16)
Speckled Trout Lake (1-A.)
Snowshoe Creek
Spruce Lake
Station Lake
Stokely Creek
Stony Portage
Sucker Lake
Tamarack Lake
Tawabinasay Lake
Tea Lake
Triple Lake
Trout Lake (Aweres)
Trout Lake Inlet
Twin Lakes
Twin Sister #1
Two Tree River
Upper Root River
Walker Lake
Wallace Lake
Wartz Lake
Waterman Lake
Wawa Lake
Whitewood Creek
White River
Woods Creek
Demonstration purposes . .
Bruce:
Big Bay Swamp Creek
Colpoy Creek
Crystal Lake
Curres Creek
Gillies Lake
Hoffart's Neck
Klrkland's Creek
Klondike Creek
Silver Stream (Amabel) . . .
Silver Stream (Carrick) . .
Spring Creek
Teeswater River
Willow Creek
Wilson's, or Forbes Creek .
20,800
4.100
2,000
2.500
4,000
1,000
1,000
1.500
3.200
2,000
2.400
2,400
1,000
1,000
4.000
1,250
2,000
1.300
750
800
1.500
2.000
1.600
1.000
9.000
2.000
1.600
800
2,400
1,000
800
6,000
400
6,000
1.500
2,500
3,600
2,500
800
2,400
2.000
2,400
1.500
3.000
2,500
150
400
400
900
900
1,500
1,200
900
750
1,800
1,400
1,800
1,800
1,400
900
Cochrane:
Crooked Creek
800
Dandurant Creek
850
Ferrier Lake
2,200
Hannah Lake
800
Junction Lake
1.000
Legare Creek
1,200
Liniment Lake
1,200
Shaw Creek
1,000
Sheration Lake
1.000
Spring Lake
1.000
Dufferin:
Boyles Creek
500
Butler's Creek
1,800
Caledon Lake
1,800
Cemetery Creek
950
Credit River
1,600
Curtis Creek
1.800
Easson Creek
1.000
Nottawasaga River
3,900
Pine River
3.900
Springbrook Creek
500
Unnamed Stream, Mono. Tp.
1.200
Durham :
Armstrongs Creek
100
Arnot's- Creek
2.400
Aude Stream
100
Ball's Stream
100
Beatty's Creek
1.200
Burk's Pond
1.500
Butter's Stream
100
Cain's Creek
2,400
Carscadden Creek
800
Chapman Creek
100
Cowan's Creek
100
Cowper's Creek
800
DeLong's Creek
2,400
Dyer's Stream
1,800
Frew's Creek
300
Ganaraska River
1,000
600
John Mercer's Pond
Leskard Creek
100
Luxton's Creek
1,600
Mountjoy Creek
2 400
iviuiurews Creek
900
Neal's Creek
100
Powell's Creek
300
Quantreuil's Creek
900
Robbin's Creek
100
Robinson's Creek
100
Roy Mercer's Creek
800
Rowe's Pond
100
Sowden's Creek
1,200
Sowpers Creek
1.600
Squirrel Creek
1,000
Stream above White's Pond
900
Thompson's Creek
800
Tyrone Pond
800
Elgin:
Ball Creek
1,500
1,000
Bassell Creek
Beaver Creek
1,000
Buck Creek
1.500
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
45
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Elgin — Continued
Campbell Creek
Clear Creek
Deer Creek
Eckert Creek
Goodwillie Creek
Grange Hall Creek
Howey Creek
Leitch Creek
Synden Creek
Wolfe Creek
Frontenac :
Beaver Creek
Black Creek
Buckshot Creek
Camp Lake
Craig's Creek
Creek entering Buckshot
Lake
Eagle Creek
Grindstone Lake
Mallory Creek
McCausland Lake
Quackenbush Lake
Reid's Creek
Round Lake
Sand Lake
Shibley Creek
Trout Lake
Grey:
Anderson's Lake
Bass Lake
Beatty Saugeen
Beaver River
Bell's Lake
Bett's Creek
Bighead Creek
Bighead River
Black's Beach
Black Creek
Blind Creek
Boyd's Lake
Boyne River
Camp Creek
Caseman's Creek
Comber's Creek
Corlett's Creek
Cotter's Creek
Craig's Creek
Creek in Bentinck Tp. . .
Deer Creek
Dodsworth Creek
Duncan Lake
Ellis Creek
English Lake
Ewart's Lake
Ferguson's Creek
Firth's Creek
Gagnon's Creek
Glen Creek
Hall's Lake
Harbottle Creek
Highland Creek
500
4,300
4,600
500
1,000
1,500
500
1,000
500
500
4,800
1,000
2,400
2,400
2,400
2,400
1,800
4,800
4,800
4,800
2,400
2,400
312
2,400
1,000
4.800
1,800
2,500
3,600
9,450
3,600
500
1,800
4,400
4,500
1,600
950
6,400
1,800
1,400
1,200
450
100
900
300
300
3,600
900
1,000
1,800
3,600
1,800
900
1,800
500
1.800
900
900
500
Hollinger Creek 900
Howey's Stream 1,950
Hydro Pond 7,800
Lamont's Stream 900
Lawrence Creek 900
Manx Creek 1,800
McCaslin Creek 600
McConnell's Creek 1,200
McCullough Creek 300
McGowan Dam 1,600
McGregor's Creek 900
Mcintosh's Lake 1,950
McMullen's Creek 500
Mitchell's Creek 5,850
Mitchell's Pond 500
Moffatt's Creek 900
Munshaw Lake 500
Niemo Creek 1,500
Nigger Creek 3,300
Oxenden Creek 2,800
Parks Lake 900
Priddles Creek 1.950
Rob Roy Creek 1.600
Rocky Saugeen 2,950
Saugeen River 8,200
Schultz Creek 1,800
Spey River 450
Spring Creek (Town of Dur-
ham) 900
Spring Lake 1,800
Stream at Markdale 900
Sulphur Springs 200
Sydenham River 29,900
Tannery Creek 900
Townsend's Lake 2,400
West's Creek 1.200
Wilcox Lake 500
Wiley's Creek 1.800
Williams Lake 14,750
Unnamed Stream — Egremont 1,800
Unnamed Stream — Glenelg . 300
Haliburton
Blue Lake 500
Blue Lake River 500
Bones Lake 500
Burnt River 1,400
Deer Lake 800
Dog Lake 500
Drag River 1,000
Eagle Lake River 500
East Lake 2,400
Gull River 1,800
Hawke River 1,000
Hollow Lake 400
Oblong River 1,000
Otter Lake 400
Pine Lake River 400
Portage Lake 900
Raven Lake 400
Red Pine Lake 400
Redstone Lake 1,400
St. Nora's Lake 400
White Trout Lake 400
Halton
Black Creek 900
Ontario Reformatory 500
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No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Hastings
Alexander Creek
Baptiste Lake
Barrager's Lake
Bartlett Creek
Brett Lake
Cannon's Lake
Canoe Lake
Cedar Creek
Cockburn Creek
Deer River
Diamond Lake
Eagle Lake
East Lake
Egan Creek
Faulkner Creek
Eraser Lake
Geen's Creek
Green Lake
Horseshoe Lake
Jardison Lake
Lake St. Peter
Little Lighthouse Lake
Little Mississippi River
Long Lake (Herschel) .
Long Lake (Mayo) ....
McCormick Lake
McGare Creek
Mirror Lake
Mud Lake
Mud Turtle Lake
Noisy Creek
Paplneau Creek
Rawdon Creek
Shaw Lake
Shire Creek
Squire's Creek
Sylvia Lake
Williams Lake
Huron
Porter's Creek
Sharp's Creek
Spring Creek
St. Helen's Creek
Kenora
Cedar Lake
Closs Lake
English River ,
Little Vermilion
Lambton
Bear Creek
Lanark
Clyde's River
' Murray's Lake
Musquito Lake
Paul's Creek
Lennox -Addington
Brown's Lake
Burns Lake
2,400
4,800
2,400
2,400
2,400
5,700
1,000
4,800
3,000
4,800
4,800
2,400
900
4,800
1,000
1,000
2,400
4,800
500
2,400
9,600
500
4,800
600
400
3,800
4,800
400
900
1,800
1,000
4,800
4,800
1,000
6,000
4,800
4,800
2,400
1,800
3,600
1,800
1,800
750
750
1,500
5,500
500
4.800
4.800
2,400
3.800
4,800
2.400
Conner's Lake 2,400
Copeland Lake 2,400
Dafoe Lake 1,000
Enterprise Creek i,000
Fox Lake 2,400
King Lake 2,400
Long Lake i,000
MacKenzie Lake i,000
Mallory Creek 550
Rock Lake (Abinger) 590
Rock Lake (Ashby) 1,500
Shiner Lake 1,000
Smith Lake 2,000
Thirty Island Creek 2.800
Tonawanda Creek 1,000
White Lake 4.8OO
Manitoulin
Barr's Creek 2,000
Bluejay River 15,000
Bonnie Doone Creek 1,000
Hare's Creek 1,000
Manitou River 17,581
Mindemoya River 15,000
Srigley Creek 3,000
Middlesex
Cody Creek 600
Wye Creek 3,000
Muskoka
Ballantyne Creek 500
Bella Lake 1,800
Big East River 36,000
Deep Lake 4,000
Echo Lake 500
Fairy Lake 4,000
Eraser's Lake 1,200
Gipsy Creek 500
Goose Lake 900
Grindstone Lake 500
Helve Lake 900
Jessops Creek 2,000
Little East River 12,000
Loon Lake 1,800
Loon Lake Creek 900
Muskoka River 7,700
Peninsula Lake 4,000
Round Lake 4,000
Shoe Lake 900
Skeleton Lake 1,200
Vernon Lake 4,000
Wolf Lake 500
Nipissing
Alexander Lake 1,000
Antoine Creek 2,000
Aumond Creek 3,000
Austin Lake 1,400
Balsam Creek 2,000
Bay Lake 1,600
Beaudry Lake 1,400
Blue Sea Creek 5,000
Boulter Tp. Lakes: Boat,
Long and Loon 3,200
Bug Lake 1,000
Cauchon Lake 1,000
Cedar Lake 1,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Nipissing — Continued
Cheney Creek 800
Clear Lake (Antoine) 5,000
Clear Lake (Lyell) 1,000
Clear Lake (near Timagami) 1,200
Crooked Lake 1,000
Crystal Lake 2,400
Devils Lake 1,100
Doran's Creek 2,800
Emerald Lake 1,400
Four Mile Creek 3,000
Green Lake 1,000
Guppy Lake 1,000
Half Mile Lake 1,000
Iron Lake 1,000
Jocko River 15,000
Kioshqua Lake 3,000
Lake Timagami 2,600
Little Cedar Lake 1,000
Little Jocko River 5,000
Loon Lake 1,000
North River 13,200
O'Connell Lake 1,400
Sparks Creek 5,000
Spawning Lake 1,000
Tomiko River 3,200
Twenty Minute Lake 4.800
Ukalet Lake 1,600
Unnamed Creek, running from
Clear to Wilfrid Lakes,
(Kenny Tp.) 3,200
Unnamed Stream — C.5, on
Hurdman Creek 1,000
Unnamed Stream 30 m. S.W.
of Timagami 700
White Partridge Lake 1,000
Wolf Lake 1,400
Norfolk
Ball Creek 1,000
Boston Creek 2,100
Cattle Creek 1,800
Ellison Creek 1,800
Glen Creek 1,800
Matthews Creek 2,800
McCool Creek 400
McMichael Creek 1,800
Nanticoke Creek 700
Patterson Creek 800
Northumberland
Baltimore Creek 4,000
Bergmans Creek 4,000
Black's Creek 4,000
Burnley Creek 8,000
Chidley's Creek 100
Dartford Creek 2,400
DeLong's Creek 2,000
Dawson Creek 8,000
Duncan's Creek 1,500
Heffernan's Creek 2,800
Hortop-Prentice Creek 4,000
Little Cole Creek 4,000
Mill Creek 200
O'Grady's Lake 4,000
Piper's Creek 100
Quinn's Creek
Robin's Creek
Sandy Plat Creek
2,000
200
2,400
Taylor's Creek
Valleau's Creek
West's Creek
Williams Pond
Ontario
Black Creek— north
Black Creek— south ,
Electric Light Pond
White's Mill Pond
Oxford
Sutherland's Pond
Parry Sound
Barrett's Creek
Barton's Creek
100
1,000
2,000
600
400
400
1,600
500
1,000
1,500
800
Bay Lake
1 400
Beaver Lake
1 750
Bernard Lake
Big Clam Lake
1,500
1 400
Big Mink Lake
Black Creek
1,000
1,500
Boyne River
Bradford's Creek
Cheer Lake
Clear Lake (Laurier)
Clear Lake (Perry)
Clear Lake (Wilson) ....
Cummings Lake
750
750
750
2,200
3,400
750
750
Deer Lake
Deer Lake Creek
Deer River
Eagle Lake
East Creek
Goose Lake
Henry Lake
Hughes Lake
1,400
1,400
750
2,250
800
500
1,200
800
Hungry Lake Creek
James Creek
Jordon's Creek
Little East River
Long Lake
Lynx Lake
Magnetawan River
Mink Lake
800
1,000
500
1,800
1,500
1,400
11,800
3,000
Mud Creek
Owl Lake
750
1,500
Poole Lake
750
Ragged Creek
Rat Lake
Rock Lake
Round Lake
Roussel's Creek
Sand Lake
Sequin River
Sharp's Pond
Shells Lake
Spring Lake Creek
1,000
2,200
1,000
2,800
1,000
2,500
3,000
800
981
750
Stirling River
Three Mile Creek ,
Three Mile Lake
Welch Lake
1.500
500
2,000
1,000
Widgen Lake
750
Wolf Creek
750
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLE!) TKOUT— Continued
Peel
Credit River 2,800
Horan's Stream 1,800
Peterborough
Bethany Stream 1,000
Big Ouse River 9,600
Cavan Stream 8,600
Eel's Creek 4,800
Little Ouse River 4,800
Ouse Creek, and Upper Mill
Pond 500
Renfrevy^
Bass Lake 500
Battery Lake 1,000
Biggs Creek 4,900
Big Tucker Creek 3,000
Bissett Creek 3,000
Black Creek 2,500
Blackfish Bay 3,000
Black Lake 1,000
Black Donald Creek 1,500
Buck Lake 500
Buriman Creek 3,000
Cameron Lake 500
Carson Lake 4,000
Centers Lake 3,000
Cochrane Creek 1,500
Colton Lake 500
Cotnam Creek 1,000
Cross Lake 3,000
Crozier Creek 3,000
Dam Lake 1,500
Deep Lake 2,000
Deux Rivieres Creek 3,800
Devils Creek 1,000
Dora Bay Creek 2,000
Eady's Lake 2,500
Echo Lake 1,500
Fountain Lake 2,000
Gardez Pieds Lake 3,400
Gareau Creek 2,000
German Lake 1,500
Godin's Creek 1,000
Grant Creek 3,500
Green Lake 1,500
Green Lake Creek 3,000
Guardapia Creek 1,500
Gun Lake 2.500
Harvey Creek 1.500
Heart Lake 2.000
Heenan's Creek 1.500
Helmers Lake 3.000
Hency Creek 3.300
Hope Lake 2.000
Indian River 12,500
Jack's Lake 2,400
Josie Creek 3,500
Kawchaw's Creek 1,000
Kelly Creek 3,600
Little Tucker Creek 1,000
Locksley Creek 4,400
Long Lake 1.000
Mackey Creek (Head) 5,500
Mackie Creek (Clara) 500
Morphy's Lake 500
Nadeau Creek 2.200
Paddy's Lake 3.000
Petawawa Creek 224
Red Pine Lake 1,000
Rock Lake (Algona) 300
Rocky Lake (Matawatchan) . 2,400
Rocky Lake 1,000
Round Lake 2.000
Smith's Creek 4.400
Smith Lake 1.000
Spring Creek (Wilberforce) . 1.500
Stewart Creek 3.000
Thompson Lake 2,400
Toohey Lake 1,500
Turner Creek 5.400
Twin Lakes 2.400
Wendigo Lake 3,000
Wylie Creek 11,400
Simcoe
Bear Creek 1.200
Black Creek 2,787
Boyne River 1.200
Catawampus Creek 600
Mathewson.'s Creek 2.000
Sheldon Creek 1.820
Sturgeon River 1.200
Tenth Creek 450
Willow Creek 4,913
Sudbury
Bertrand's Creek 4,000
Bull Lake 1,000
Corston Lake 2,000
Ella Lake 5,000
Fournier Creek 4,000
Green Lake 2.000
McLanders Creek 1.000
Pumphouse Creek 15,000
Rapid River 4,000
Sandcherry Creek 4,000
Sauble River 1,000
Trout Lake 1,000
Veuve River 3,400
Wavy Creek 4,000
Thunder Bay
Allen Creek 1,500
Allen Lake 2.000
Anderson Creek 1.500
Anderson Lake 2.500
Arnold Creek 1.500
Arrow River 2,000
Bass Creek 4,000
Bear Trap Lake 2.000
Beardmore Lake 2.000
Beaver Creek 2.000
Big Duck Creek 4,000
Big Duck Lake 4,000
Big MacKenzie River 14.000
Binabeck Lake 1.500
Bishop Lake 2.000
Blend River 3.000
Blind Creek 1.000
Boulevard Lake 3.000
Brule Creek 7,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
49
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Tliiinder Bay — Continued
Cedar Creek 13,000
Clegg Lake 1,500
Cliff Lake 4,000
Coldwater Creek 3,000
Coldwater River 6,000
Corbett's Creek 3,000
Cousineau Lake 2,000
Current River 14.000
Deception Lake 2,500
Elgin Lake 3,000
Fall Lake 1,000
Fawn Lake 2,000
Gravel Lake 6,000
Hidden Lake 2,000
High Bluff Lake 1,000
High Lake 1,000
Howcum Lake 1,500
Kaministiquia River 6,000
Knobel Lake 2,500
Lake Ada 500
Lake Eva 2,000
Little Lake 1,000
Little Partridge Lake 1,000
Little Paysplatt River 1,000
Little Whitefish River 2,000
Loftquist Lake 12,000
Longworth Lake 2,000
Loon Creek 1,500
Loon Lake 10,000
Lower Hunter Lake 1,500
Lower Pass Lake 3,000
Lower Pearl Lake 2,000
Lynx Lake 2,000
Mac's Lake 1,000
McGregor Lakes 3,000
Mclntyre River 6,000
McVicar's Creek 5,500
Mine Lake 2,000
Mirror Lake 3,000
Moose Creek 3,000
Moose Lake 3,000
Morgan Creek 2,000
Mountain Lake 500
Navilus Lake 2,000
Neebing River 12,000
Nichaun Lake 1,000
Nipigon River 18,000
Oliver Lake 6,000
Parsons Lake 2,000
Partridge Lake 1,000
Pass Lake 6,000
Pearl River 6,000
Pickerel Lake 2.900
Pitch Creek 7.000
Rainbow Lake 2,000
Ring Lake 500
Rock Lake 5,000
Sand Lake 2,500
Sawmill Lakes 2,000
Setting Duck Lake 2,500
Silver Falls Creek 2,000
Silver Islet and Creek 3,000
Silver Lake 1,500
Spectacle Lake 2.000
Spring Lake (Conmee) 1,500
Spring Lake (Dorion) 3
Spring Lake (Leduc) 2
Squaw Creek 4
Surprise Lake 2
Trout Lake (Gorham) 6
Trout Lake (Stirling) 17
Twin Lakes 2
Twist Lake 2
Upper Hunter's Lake 1
Upper Morgan's Creek 2
Upper Pass Lake 7
Upper Pearl Lake 2
Walker Lake 2
Warnford Creek 2
Warnica Lake 1
Whitefish River 1
Whitewood Creek 6
Wideman Lake 2
Wild Goose Creek 1
Timiskaming
Beaver Lake
Belle Lake 1
Charlotte Lake 1
Crystal Lake 2
Dellmur's Lake 2
Driftwood Creek 1
Emerald Lake 4
Fairy Lake 1
Gleason Creek 1
Graham Creek 1
Halfway Lake 1
Hooker Creek 1
Jean Baptiste Lake 1
Lake of Bays
Latour Creek 1
Little Otter Lake 1
Loon Lake 2
Lundy Creek 1
Moffatt Creek 1
Munro Lake
Pike Creek 1
Rowley Lake
Small Spot Creek
South Wabi Creek 1
Spring Creek 1
Spring Lake 4
Trout Lake 5
Watabeag River
Webb Lake 5
Whiskey Jack Creek
Whitney Lake 1
Victoria
Corbin's Creek
Davis Lake
Union Creek
Waterloo
Cedar Creek 1.500
Elora Creek 750
Erbsville Creek 750
Mannheim Creek 400
Welland
Effingham Stream
Sulphur Stream
!,000
!,500
,000
!,000
.000
',000
,000
,000
,500
,000
'.000
!.000
!,000
,000
,500
,500
,000
!,500
.000
700
,000
.,000
.400
5,200
,200
1,200
,000
,000
,000
L,200
L,200
,000
850
L,000
.000
5.800
..000
1,000
800
,000
850
800
,000
.000
,200
,000
800
;,ooo
700
,000
200
500
900
800
400
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1938, to March 31st, 1939— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Conthined
Wellington
Bell's Creek 3,000
Credit River 1,200
O'Dwyer's Creek 300
Rothsay Creek 1,000
Saugeen River 7,200
Speed River 1,000
York
Doan's Pond 600
Sales — Demonstration & pro-
pagation purposes 16,530
ADULTS
Algoma
Island Lake (Aweres) 400
Island Lake (McMahon) . . . 1,097
Grey
Bass Lake 100
Mary Lake 100
Thunder Bay
Coldwater River, Spring,
Cedar, Tontan, Cold and
Moose Creeks 2,300
Wellington
Keenan's Pond 100
York
Sales — Demonstration & pro-
pagation purposes 355
WHITEFISH FRY
Kenora
Eagle Lake 1,000,000
Lake of the Woods 17,307,500
Separation Lake 1,000,000
Sydney Lake 1,000,000
Prince EJdward
Bay of Quinte 42,500,000
Rainy River
Rainy Lake 36,700,000
Thunder Bay
Lake Nipigon 1,500,000
Savant Lake 1,000,000
York
Lake Sinicoe 2,500,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 9,493,000
Lake Huron 31,650,000
North Channel 14,250.000
Georgian Bay 73,550,000
Lake Ontario 40,250,000
Lake Erie 50,000,000
HERRING FRY
Frontenac
Palmerston Lake 500,000
Snake Island, St. Lawrence
River 1,250,000
Wolf Lake 500,000
Hastings
Paudash Lake 1,000,000
Lennox- Addington
Otter Lake 625.000
Weslemkoon Lake 625,000
Prince Edward
Bay of Quinte 3,700,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 5,625,000
Lake Ontario 35,900,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1938-39
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APPENDIX No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES — 1934 TO 1938, INCLUSIVE
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fiy
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinonge — Fry
Perch— Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry
Brown Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults . . . .
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Landlocked Salmon (Ouananiche)
Yearlings
Atlantic Salmon — Fry
Yearlings
Rainbow Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fi-y
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
tKamloops Trout
Yearlings
Sc
-Fingerlings
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fi-y
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
rhitefish— Fry
Eyed E^gs
[erring — Fry .
Eyed Eggs
Golden Shiners
MLacellaneous
1934
35.250
4.250
197
365.500
35.750
420
909.500
95.000.000
5.000.000
278,470.000
138.000
14,500
689
402.000
1.265.000
14.045.450
1.000
4.480
312.512
25.014
6.257,267
34.762
1.652
376.777,000
17,512,000
7,000
TOTALS 796.619.198 655,747.231** 862.401,472 696.395.280 733.265,643
1935
130.000
2.153
27*
696.000
153.065
3.435
460.000
53,031,400
2,000,000
229,629,000
109.000
9.650
6*
7.773.034
14.564.000
13.640
134.075
314
85.464
10.796
1.645,000
5,018,831
35,421
5,420
296,482,000
43.760.000
500
1936
45,000
780,000
69.380
5.202
274,000
46.080,000
2.000.000
300.759.500
147.050
7.290
3.209.400
4.165,000
18.253.244
133.000
3.507
28.600
182.000
1.053.050
557.270
6.081
428.402.000
112,500
56,120,000
1937
135.000
4.120
92
1.275.000
141.900
5.893
420.700
9.150.000
2.000.000
263.743.400
1.000.000
97,484
3,225.000
4.667.000
15,782.350
7.200
105,240
80,000
384.725
1.167.073
16.150
383.683.900
4.000,000
5.270.000
30.000
3.053
1938
57.500
8.061
804.000
169.800
7.738
2.005.000
59.150.000
2.012.500
271.567.500
500.000
59.592
2.437.000
7.665.000
10.575.200
4.800
821.600 /
6.727
25,821
1,000
373.314
2.083.538
4.452
323,700.500
49.725.000
• Exhibition fish
♦• This total does not include a distribution of 132.646.600 fry and eyed eggs during the five months
immediately preceding the said report.
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
(•RRoline
Launches
Sail and
Row Boats
Gill
Nets
No.
Tons
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
693
339
236
465
413
127
893
656
348
4
8
12
17
18
64
300
212
447
437
$ 11,500
51,500
74,700
120,810
141,074
149
108
62
140
130
45
173
215
14
$ 67,055
44,530
38,865
109,561
96,564
12,736
187,935
106,770
2,910
262
58
58
130
40
65
126
152
117
$ 9.633
3.485
4.030
6.262
1.685
3,385
5.987
5.252
3,973
530.053
784,929
622.921
1.239,047
1.742.567
$ 62.804
91.159
75.249
123,404
195.261
i^ake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
I^ke St. Clair
Lake Erie
40
1,080
272,900
1.996.313
1.334.910
900
239.694
115.858
45
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
4,170
99
2.540
$672,484
1036
$666,926
1,008
43.692
8.251,640
903.474
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herrinff
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
ma.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
2.384
1,855,500
1.723
47.293
186,714
1,37*4', 499
1,230,559
4,245
1,433,479
311,718
186.682
1.196.159
205.230
150
1.001,788
602,337
11,136
271.052
1,667,822
626,072
1,426.874
1,747,281
710,402
8,174
85,460
43,077
94
21.537
20.231
104.636
10.176
82,594
14,205
1,302,169
75.534
53,467
124.626
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bay
T4)k^ Huron .... , .
2,027
1.100
7.157.666
59,522
10
180.419
Lake St. Clair
47.706
Lake Erie
29
275.811
25,530
509,495
Lake Ontario ,
14,976
Southern Inland Waters
4.440
Totals
4,702,917
4,947,679
6.040.471
1,003,787
7,317,124
2.S12.8S0
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
Values ,
1235,145.85
$544,244.69
$664,451.81
$60,277.22
$365,856.20
$254,411.30
ANNUAL REPORT. 1938-39
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DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
Province of Ontario, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1938.
MENT
Seine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
Night Lines
Spears
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
Yards
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Hooks
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
J
1
451$ 14,710
57 27,650
941 39,350
82] 72,545
114f 74-aKn
1
63 $2,135
2.400
$490
143
42
47
57
55
15
104
38
38
$32,600
16,725
14,245
14,850
23,505
6,775
131,660
9,510
2,814
113
37
37
60
31
10
76
29
6
$12,173
9,825
14,180
30,606
7.160
1,850
25,075
6,320
496
$213,100
244,874
260.619
5
900
$ 770
48
720
27,004
13,536
.^.fiOft
3,595
2,689
241
49
388
98
4
$ 17
483,140
542,288
4,017
8,605
485
2,935
102
618
10,425
295.550
3
10
588
167
450
1,500
12.800
4,514
1
1
23
39
$ 1
39,880
44 12,200
5; 410
451 4,162
1
3 1 2,100
110 1 2,550
178 1 3,350
1
1.168,958
257,493
115
967
18,930
1311 24,772|$16,812
1 1
1
$1,112|$534,580
1
1$
879122.119
1
64
$292 1 54,540|$7.550
1 1
119
$984
539
1
$252,6841399
1
$107,685^$3,229,282
1
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
111,681
2,586
6,553
2,110
3,761
9,127
16,480
5.284
19,996
672
245.877
fil Q9.7
8,367
1,560
1 1 1
1 406.4101 9. A9A\ A RQR AnA\ tAK9 !IQH 7T
603i -"^R -"^917
4,057,268
1 1Q4 rtnn
326,608.41
110.281.53
819,067.52
280,582.22
37,019.09
797.444.93
212.472.95
36,770.55
6.497I 9.'?9
36
7,729
2,940
63,112
78,294
191,242
122,338
764
44,585
3.707
261,041
227.100
107.050
161.816
93.^ KA9
37
4.512
140.818
29.455
2.595.484
169.427
10.985
77.670
373.365
87 3.081,771
295 3,008.467
117 AftB aan
373.930i 1,373.'076
144.1741 245.769
241.706 276.053
860
21
14,501.832
3.086.044
716,939
42,286
10,320
157,582 52,606
1
2.977,846
759.778
474,058
1.072,070 3,091,352
1
3,841
34,918.941
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05 .03
1.0A
1
1 i
1 ' 1
$63,032,801 $3,682.42 $148,892.30
1
$45,586.68
$37,924.64
$53,603.50
$92,740.56 $3,841.00
1
$2,573,640.97
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Kind
1937
Pounds
1938
Pounds
Increase
Pounds
Decrease
Pounds
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) .
Pickerel (Dore) .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
4,153,582
5,518,388
6,098,993
1,040,940
9,449,521
2,136,177
9 3,041
74,906
2.050,126
947,120
535,692
1,086,407
2,905,451
2,528
4,702
4,947
6,040
1,003
7,317
2,312
157
52
2,977
759
474
1,072
3,091
3
,917
,679
.471
,787
,124
.830
,582
,606
,846
,778
,058
.070
.352
,841
549,335
176,653
64,541
V2V,720
185.901
1,313
570.709
58,522
37,153
2,132,397
22,300
V8V,342
61,634
14,337
TOTALS 36,092,872 34,913,941
♦1,178,931
* Net Decrease
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1938.
Kind
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue)
Pickerel (Dore) ,
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS
Quantity
Pounds
4,702,917
4,947,679
6,040,471
1,003,787
7,317,124
2,312,830
157,582
52,606
2,977,846
759.778
474.058
1,072.070
3,091.352
3,841
34,913,941
Price per
Pound
$ .05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
Estimated
Value
$235
544
664
60
365
254
63
3
148
45
37
53
92
3
,145.85
,244.69
,451.81
,227.22
,856.20
,411.30
,032.80
,682.42
,892.30
,586.68
,924.64
,603.50
,740.56
,841.00
$2,573,640.97
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF FISH TAKEN FROM THE WATERS
OF THE PROVINCE
1919—1938 INCLUSIVE
1919 $2,721,440.24
1920 2,691,093.74
1921 2,656,775.82
1922 2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926 2,643,686.28
1927 3,229,143.57
1928 3,033,944.42
1929 $3,054,282.02
1930 2,539,904.91
1931 2,442,703.55
1932 2,286,573.50
1933 2,186,083.74
1934 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
1936 2,614,748.49
1937 2,644,163.49
1938 2,573,640.97
Thirty-Third Annual Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1939-1940
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1941
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 4 1
TO THE HONORABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1940.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
Toronto, 1941.
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THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in charge.
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR: —
I have the honour to submit to you in this and the following pages the Thirty-
third Annual Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining the activities
of various Departmental services and including statistical and comparative tables
for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1940.
INTRODUCTORY
More than ever before the conservation of our natural resources is of para-
mount importance, and wilful waste becomes a serious menace.
During the period under review the grim spectre of war, whose ugly form had
on previous occasions cast a dark shadow over us, became a reality, and the peaceful
pursuits of our normal lives have once more been directed, in large measure, to the
prosecution of the war. Uppermost in our minds, perhaps, is the picture of a war-
torn world in which sorrow, suffering and anxiety predominate; yet even this
dreary picture is brightened somewhat by the heroism and self-sacrifice of those
who are so bravely striving to maintain and strengthen their right to live in ac-
cordance with their national traditions.
The sportsman knows the economic value of our wildlife heritage, and is
familiar with the part that wealth plays in the prosecution of a war. Therefore he
has a definite and personal responsibility to see that these resources shall not be
dissipated through unlawful means.
Possibly, there never was a time in the history of wildlife administration
when the sportsmen of this Province were more deeply conscious of the necessity
for exercising restraint, observing regulations and playing the game according to
the best traditions, than just now. Education and organized effort have done much
to bring about this happy state of affairs. No longer is it considered smart to
disregard the provisions of the regulations which govern, for waste attributable
to the display of such disregard destroys much more quickly than subsequent re-
medial measures can restore. Conservation as it affects the individual is more than
law observance, although the latter is of primary importance, and is therefore
mandatory. The ethics which apply are not written on the statute books, but are a
voluntary contribution representing personal restraint and an attitude of mind
which reflects true sportsmanship. Conservation and sportsmanship are closely
allied.
It is a splendid sign to find sportsmen themselves through representative or-
ganizations pointing out to fellow sportsmen certain laws and fundamental
principles with regard to their sport. Law observance is so essential to good govern-
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
ment and wise administration that the thoughtful man needs no special reminder
of his duty in that regard. To the sportsman the laws which govern his sport are
so necessary to its perpetuation that their observance is the best contribution the in-
dividual can make to the protection of the resources which make such sport possible.
We are anxious
the country have not
sign is still displayed
that instead of taxing
quite a saving during
supplies are sufficient
cerned there has been
resources.
to make it clear to our American friends that the laws of
changed so far as tourists are concerned, that the welcome
at our ports of entry and applies to all but enemy aliens,
American money there is a premium on same, which means
a prolonged stay and that despite war conditions our food
for all requirements. Insofar as hunting and fishing are con-
no recession in our plans for maintaining and developing our
Ontario's facilities for hunting and fishing are unsurpassed, and the regula-
tions which apply provide a minimum of restriction and a maximum of sporting
possibilities. These facts are well known to the thousands of visitors who annually
sojourn among us and require no elaboration. However, it seems necessary to
emphasize the fact that our hospitality is still unimpaired and our forests and
waterways have lost none of their attractiveness. In short, visitors are assured of
the same courteous reception and treatment as heretofore, and the war angle will
but add to the thrill of the visit.
The tourist traffic has become one of the largest industries of the Province
and its ramifications are such that, directly or indirectly, both urban and rural
districts share in the revenue derived therefrom. This particular business has its
stock-in-trade in those physical attractions and natural resources which are a part
of our heritage, and from which we secure a great deal of material wealth.
Insofar as the Department of Game and Fisheries is concerned the year was
one of progressive development. Fish culture operations were further expanded
through the addition of more hatcheries and rearing pond facilities, and more
pheasants wore released than during the previous year. The fish and game resources
of the Province are in better shape than they have been for a considerable period,
and this is confirmed by the fact that departmental revenues reached the highest
peak in our history.
FINANCIAL
Revenue
Expenditure
( Ordinary & Capital)
Surplus
1935-36
$ 683,938.72
782,217.63
866,558.19
914,475.24
1,015,350.82
$451,041.91
474,128.95
563,938.33
575,437.79
568,198.55
$232,896.81
1936-37
318,088.68
1937-38
302,619.86
1938-39
339,037.45
1939-40
447,152.27
The statistical table above set forth shows the total revenue and expenditure
of the Department for the year reported on and for the four preceding fiscal
years. It will be observed that there has been in each year a succeeding increase in
revenue, climaxed in 19 39-40 with a revenue exceeding the one million dollar mark,
the first in the history of the Department. Details of the various sources from
which this revenue was derived are indicated in the statement which follows: —
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REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31ST, 19 40
ORDINARY —
MAIN OFFICE —
GAME —
Licenses —
Trapping $ 39,772.30
Non-resident Hunting 84,590.00
Deer 81,882.00
Moose 2,733.50
Gun 94,882.18
Dog 5,550.00
Fur Dealers 25,446.00
Fur Farmers 9,583.50
Tanners 100.00
Cold Storage 168.00
$ 344,707.48
Royalty 116,520.40
$ 461,227.88
FISHERIES —
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 86,858.00
Angling 391,504.00
$ 478,362.00
Sales — Spawn taking 168.93
Royalty 12,140.09
490,671.02
GENERAL —
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 7,445.00
Guides 8,276.00
$ 15,721.00
Fines 16,521.74
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Game Act) . . . 726.11
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 23,901.02
Rent 3,738.65
Commission retained by Province on sale of lie. 2,328.90
Miscellaneous 243.42
63,180.84
EXPERIMENAL FUR FARM —
Sales — Pelts 271.08
Net Ordinary Revenue $1,015,350.82
. Upon reference to the five-year revenue statement it will be observed that as
compared with that of the previous year the revenue in 1939-40 shows an increase
in excess of one hundred thousand dollars. The principal sources which contributed
to this large increase were the revenues derived from fur royalties, the sale of trap-
ping licenses and the sale of non-resident angling licenses. Increased revenue from fur
royalties amounting to $42,455.65, and trapping licenses amounting to a sum some-
what in excess of $13,500.00, or more than fifty per cent in excess of the sum derived
from this source in the previous year, was to a great extent due to the fact that
after an entire close season of several years two limited periods of open season were
provided for the taking of beaver, during which open season there was a catch of
33,530 of these animals upon which a royalty of $1.00 per pelt was collected by the
Department in accordance with existing provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act,
and greatly increased catches during the regular open seasons which prevailed in
the case of mink and muskrat were also factors in the increased revenue from this
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source. The sale of non-resident angling licenses resulted in the collection of the
total sum of $391,504.00, an increase of more than $52,000.00 as compared with
the figure from the same source in 19 38-39.
Total expenditures for the year, including both ordinary and capital, amounted
in all to a sum of $568,198.55, showing an operating surplus of $447,152.27 for
the period under review. Capital expenditures totalled $10,095.43, of which amount
$3,933.47 was spent on improvements at the Departmental bird farms located at
Normandale and Codrington, while the balance of $6,161.96 was expended on various
fish hatchery properties. The principal items of ordinary expenditure were $219,-
211.11 on the maintenance of the staff of regular and seasonal officers engaged in
the work of providing enforcement of provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and
additional patrols during the fish spawning periods; and the sum of $211,142.44
for the operation of the various fish hatcheries and rearing stations maintained by
the Department in connection with the propagation and distribution of fish by the
Fish Culture Branch, the details of this service being enumerated further along in
this report. Expenditures additional to the two principal items to which reference
has just been made include $27,399.50 spent in connection with the purchase and
distribution of game birds and animals for re-stocking purposes, $21,506.20 of this
total being for the purchase of some 26,500 live pheasants, which were liberated
principally in the various Townships in southwestern Ontario counties established as
Regular Game Preserve Areas; expenses under the Wolf Bounty Act were $25,-
058.12, actual bounty payments being in all $24,905.00; while special grants paid by
the Department in accordance with appropriations provided by the Legislature
amounted to $7,400.00, details of which are as follows: $2,000.00 expended under
the supervision of Professor W. J. K. Harkness in connection with biological sur-
veys and research work in fisheries, particularly on waters in Algonquin Provincial
Park; $2,500.00 to the Ontario Fur Farmers' Association to assist the services of
this organization in the development of the fur farming industry throughout the
Province; $1,000.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers to be expended in con-
nection with their educational campaign to secure more improved co-operation
along the lines of closer observance of provisions of the Fisheries Regulations; while
the balance of $1,900.00 was allotted to Mr. Jack Miner, Mr. Thomas N. Jones, and
Miss Edith L. Marsh to encourage these interested naturalists in their work of bird
protection on the sanctuaries maintained by them in the Counties of Essex, Elgin
and Grey respectively.
GAME
The following table shows comparative details of the various hunting licenses,
both resident and non-resident, which were issued during the seasons which prevail-
ed, together with similar information for preceding years, and from which it will
be observed that there was but little change in the numbers of such licenses which
were disposed of during the year reported upon as compared with the numbers sold
in the previous year:
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
Resident Deer
15,394
262
5,386
542
79,531
848
878
1,129
18,672
283
6,503
580
90,756
1,036
1,043
1,634
30
21,762
307
7,719
471
114,580
1,329
569
1,618
49
21,416
Resident Deer (Camp)
323
Resident Deer (Farmers)
7,722
Resident Moose
497
Resident Gun
113,992
Non-Resident Deer
1,492
Non-Resident "General"
593
Non-Resident Small Game
Non-Resident Bear (Spring season).
1,567
108
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ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
At this point I desire to draw attention to the effort now being made by the
Department to develop the interest of non-resident hunters in the possibilities of a
successful bear hunt in this Province during the period between April 1st and June
15th, and, while the numbers of such licenses which have been sold for this privilege
during the three years this has been in effect are not substantial, there are indica-
tions that knowledge of the policy is becoming somewhat more widespread, and
there is ever^ reason to believe that the increasing numbers of inquiries being re-
ceived from interested hunters will eventually mean that considerably larger num-
bers will avail themselves of the opportunity for a splendid spring outing which is
thus provided-
The following is a summary of conditions which apply to the various species
of game animals and birds of the Province, compiled from reports received in the
Department fiom the officers of the Enforcement Service: —
DEER: — The white-tailed or Virginia deer common to this part of the Con-
tinent continues to be quite plentiful in many sections of the Province, and the
hunting- of this species during the regular open season which prevails provides an
opportunity for the sportsman to partake in a most enjoyable form of recreation.
Reports indicate that so far as the northern and northwestern portions of the Pro-
vince are concerned, generally speaking, conditions are quite favourable. There
are, however, certain scattered sections in which the habitat is not conducive to
the existence of deer and in which areas the herd is not at all plentiful. By reason
of its easy accessibility extensive hunting is carried on in the northern districts of
the southern part of the Province, nevertheless, deer in these areas continue to be
plentiful, and in fact are showing quite an increase in their numbers in some areas.
In the counties included in the southwestern peninsula and in certain eastern
counties there has been an entire close season on deer for the past several years.
This complete protection has resulted in deer in these areas becoming quite numer-
ous, and it is no unusual occurrence to see these animals as one travels along our
highways. In Bruce and Grey Counties the increase has been so favourable as to
warrant the provision of a limited open season there.
Hunters returning from the north have reported a satisfactory deer season.
The general opinion was the deer were quite plentiful, increasing numbers of does
and fawns being observed. This is the natural result of the present regulations
which provide a large measure of protection to does and their young, while in ad-
dition to this protective measure the past few winters have been reasonably mild,
and this has been an important factor in maintaining and developing the herd.
With a reasonable measure of protection and the co-operation of the general
public to that end, the deer herd is quite capable of replenishing itself and taking
care of all reasonable demands.
MOOSE: — The moose is the largest of the deer tribe found on the American
continent. It is of majestic appearance, and a large spread of antlers adds to its
value as a sporting trophy. It is to be found in the northern portions of the Pro-
vince, though a f e^^^ specimens are frequently seen in the districts of Muskoka,
Parry Sound, Renfrew as well as in the sections immediately adjacent to Algonquin
Park. Nowhere in Ontario, however, can they be described as plentiful, and restric-
tions for their protection which are in effect are necessary to ensure the perpetuation
and rehabilitation of this species. In certain sections, such as the Districts of
Cochrane, the northern portions of the Districts of Sudbury and Algoma, and the
Districts of Thunder Bay, Rainy River and Kenora, they are reported to be fairly
plentiful, but their future development will depend on many factors, particularly
environment, for even the great northland is opening up before the ever progressive
advance of civilization.
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CARIBOU: — The caribou is a near relative of the reindeer of northern Europe
and is the most useful though not the most comely of its race. It has few of the
prepossessing physical endowments of the elk and none of the grace of the deer.
Caribou are extremely scarce in the Province and are reported only from the
Districts of Kenora, and Thunder Bay, as well as from the northern portions of
the Districts of Algoma, Sudbury and Cochrane. Perhaps because of the fact that
they have been completely protected for a number of years some slight increase
has been noted in the eastern portion of the Thunder Bay District, more particular-
ly in the territory which comprises the Superior Game Preserve, and in the Chapleau
Crown Game Preserve located in the Districts of Algoma and Sudbury.
ELK: — The wapiti or North American elk is one of the largest specimens of
the deer tribe. He is also without doubt the most beautiful and stately animal in
all the deer family. Although of extremely large proportions his physical appear-
ance is such as to immediately attract attention. The magnificent antlers often
measure six feet in length and these added to a graceful and compact body give
it a stately appearance.
The elk which are found in Ontario at present are those which were imported
to the Province from Western Canada, and their progeny. The original shipments
on arrival here were placed on the following Crown Game Preserves, viz: Pem-
broke, located in the county of Renfrew; Burwash, located in the District of Sud-
bury; Chapleau, located in the Districts of Sudbury and Algoma; Goulais River-
Ranger Lake, located in the District of Algoma; and Nipigon-Onaman, located in the
District of Thunder Bay.
There has been some improvement in practically all instances save one, —
those liberated in the Nipigon-Onaman Crown Game Preserve. Specimens from
the herd at Pembroke have previously been placed in Algonquin Provincial Park
and on the Bruce Peninsula, and during the year under review others were liberated
in the Nipissing and Peterborough Crown Game Preserves, while some animals from
the herd at Burwash were liberated in territory adjacent thereto. It is reported
that their numbers have increased in the Chapleau and Burwash Crown Game Pre-
serves and also on the Bruce Peninsula, while some of these animals have been ob-
served on Beausoleil Island in Georgian Bay.
BEAR: — Black bear are common throughout the northern portion of the Pro-
vince, and are found to a lesser extent in many other sections specially among which
are the Districts of Parry Sound, Muskoka, Haliburton, Renfrew, the northern part
of Hastings County and in the Bruce Peninsula. These animals are both hunted and
trapped though not extensively, but there is an indication that increasing numbers
of non-resident hunters are becoming interested in the spring hunt for which pro-
vision has been made. Unquestionably the sportsman gets a great thrill out of bear
hunting.
RABBITS: — Rabbits continue to provide many opportunities for wholesome
recreation and sport, and more particularly is this so in the southern portion of the
Province. In these southern counties cotton-tail rabbits are available in satisfactory
numbers although bag limits have been introduced and the sale or purchase pro-
hibited in some of these counties. The jack-rabbit (European* Hare) is pretty well
confined to the western counties, though this species is gradually extending its
range to the east and north. The varying hare or snowshoe rabbit is to be found
in most districts although it alone is the prevailing species in Northern Ontario, and
while it is reported to be quite scarce in that area there are indications of some
improvements from many sections there.
Rabbit hunting is a favourite activity of Ontario sportsmen during the fall
and winter months. The "jack" is probably the most popular of the species because
of its size, its great speed and the fact that it is to be found in open country which
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makes the hunting easier. Its speed is its chief defence and it is not easily sub-
dued.
Hunters should note that while rabbits are quite prolific breeders there is
just as much danger of exterminating them through needless waste as any other
species of game. This is particularly true in the more populous areas, where hunt-
ing is heavy and habitat restricted. Control is necessary to prevent damage to
property, but game which provides such healthy outdoor sport at a minimum of ex-
pense is worth conserving.
PARTRIDGE: — The ruffed grouse, or partridge as it is more generally called,
is a native bird and is found in varying numbers throughout the Province. In the
more settled sections its numbers are very limited, and it is further subject to a
cycle of scarcity and abundance which materially affects its permanent develop-
ment. However, at the present time, the cycle appears to be on the up swing again
and improvem^ent has been noted, particularly throughout Northern Ontario, as well
as in the northern section of the southern part of the Province.
The sharp-tailed grouse or prairie chicken is prevalent only in the north-
western districts and even there this species is comparatively scarce.
The ruffed grouse is perhaps the fastest and most elusive of our upland game
birds.
QUAIL: — These birds are found principally in the southwestern counties
of Essex, Kent, Lambton and Middlesex and in the counties immediately adjacent
to the eastern boundaries thereof, in which section they are fairly plentiful. Scat-
tered bevies are also reported in some eastern counties, that is Stormont, Dundas
and Glengarry.
PHEASANT: — The English ring-necked pheasant is a non-native bird. It was
originally introduced to Ontario about half a century ago and since then has under-
gone a process of natural and artificial development which has served to firmly
establish it in certain areas, — particularly in the southwestern part of the Province
where the climate is not too rigorous. Because of the fact that climatic conditions
are extreme over much of the Province it is unlikely that the pheasant will have
an extended range. However, it has done so well where it has become established
that open seasons have been the rule for a number of years.
In recent years the Department has enlarged and intensified its operations
in connection with the propagation and distribution of pheasants and during the
year reported on adult pheasants and poults numbering 30,39 6 were liberated in
areas suitable for their development. Of this number 27,373 were distributed in
Townships established as Regulated Game Preserve Areas, and the balance, 3,023
birds, in Counties not included in this Regulated scheme, principally Essex and Kent.
The birds were allotted as they were available according to the area of the Town-
ships concerned and the conditions prevailing therein. Details of the distribution
are as follows: —
Regulated Game Preserve Areas: County of Brant, two Townships, 801 birds;
County of Elgin, four Townships, 1813 birds; County of Haldimand, ten Townships,
3,824 birds; County of Halton, four Townships, 1909 birds; County of Lennox and
Addington, one Township, 140 birds; County of Lincoln, eight Townships, 3,043
birds; County of Middlesex, two Townships, 1270 birds; County of Norfolk, four
Townships, 1,940 birds; County of Ontario, three Townships, 1,185 birds; County
of Oxford, one Township, 546 birds; County of Peel, four Townships, 1,797 birds;
County of Prince Edward, one Township, 340 birds; County of Welland, eight
Townships, 3,173 birds; County of Wellington, one Township, 370 birds; County of
Wentworth, six Townships, 1,871 birds; and the County of York, six Townships,
3,351 birds.
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General: — County of Essex, 1,970 birds, of which 1,582 were liberated on the
mainland and 388 on Pelee Island; County of Kent, 929 birds; and the remaining
124 birds were distributed in four other areas.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— These birds were also introduced to the Pro-
vince from Europe, but have not yet become plentiful anywhere. So far as the north
is concerned their numbers are negligible though evidence of their existence is re-
ported from certain sections of Temiskaming, Algoma and Thunder Bay. They are
most numerous in the very extreme southwestern counties, while reports indicate
that they are becoming more plentiful in some of the eastern counties.
DUCKS: — Generally speaking, this species of migratory water-fowl provides
quite a large proportion of the sport which is available to the hunter during any
season, and the season is a reasonably long one. Practically every section of the
Province has its quota of ducks during the period of migration. Restrictions affecting
the taking of ducks have recently been provided with a view of affording greater
protection. The results have been very beneficial and reports indicate that their
numbers have increased. Regulations for the taking of ducks are provided by the
Federal Government under the terms of the Migratory Birds Convention Act, a
Treaty applicable in the United States and Mexico as well as in Canada.
Few have more than a passing acquaintance with the various species of North
American ducks with the exception of one or two of the most common. Not
all of these species are to be found in Ontario, but there is a wide variety, including
the Mallard, Black duck, Gadwall or Grey duck. Pintail, Widgeon-Baldpate, Shoveller,
Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal, Wood duck, Bluebill, Lesser Scaup, Canvas-
back, Red-head, Golden-eye-Whistler, Bufflehead, Long-tailed duck. Old Squaw,
Black Scoter, Velvet Scoter, Ruddy duck and Eider duck, some of which are quite
common and others not at all plentiful. Of the various species herein enumerated
only the Wood duck is provided the protection of an entire close season.
GEESE: — There are not many areas in Ontario in which these birds may be
successfully hunted, and while they are observed in flight during the fall and spring
migrations, in numerous sections the conditions which prevail during these migra-
tions are such that during the open season which is provided, any hunting which is
available is pretty well restricted to the James Bay shore in the far north, and to a
few of the extreme southwestern counties. There are several different species of
geese, of which the Canada Goose is perhaps the best known.
WOODCOCK: — This species is extremely scarce in Northern Ontario, and is
none too plentiful in the southern portion of the Province. Reports from Depart-
mental officers show the most favourable locations to be certain of the counties
along the north side of Lake Erie.
SNIPE: — As in the case of woodcock, this species is quite scarce in Northern
Ontario. They are reported to be somewhat plentiful in several southern counties,
while increasing numbers are recorded in scattered areas a little farther north.
PLOTER: — These birds continue to be quite scarce throughout the entire
Province though some slight improvement is reported from different areas in the
most southerly counties.
During the year under review special Regulations were provided, details of
which are as follows: —
(a) An open season for deer in that portion of the County of
Carleton lying west of the Rideau River, from November 6th
to November 20th, both days inclusive. General deer hunting
regulations were effective.
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(b) An open season for deer in the Townships of Amabel,
Albemarle, Eastnor, Lindsay and St. Edmund, in the County
of Bruce, extending from November 13th to November 18th,
both days inclusive. General deer hunting regulations were
in effect during this period, except that the use of dogs was
not permitted.
(c) An open season for cock pheasants on Pelee Island, October
2 7th and 28th. Limit of five birds per day. Special municipal
hunting license $5.00.
(d) An open season for cock pheasants in the various Township
Regulated Game Preserve Areas, and in the various Town-
ships in the County of Oxford, October 20th, 21st and 28th.
Limit of three birds per day. Special municipal hunting
license $1.00 per day.
(e) An open season for cock pheasants, quail and Hungarian
partridge in the Counties of Essex (excluding Pelee Island)
and Kent, October 20th, 21st and 28th. Limit of three cock
pheasants, four quail and two Hungarian partridge per day.
(f) An open season for partridge throughout the Province (ex-
cepting the Counties of Essex and Kent and the various Town-
ship Regulated Game Preserve Areas), — October 9th to
October 14th, both days inclusive, and November 6th to
November 11th, both days inclusive. Limit of five birds
per day, and not more than fifteen during the two periods
specified.
(g) Prohibiting the hunting or shooting of any game on Pelee
Island during the period October 21st to October 26th, both
days inclusive.
(h) Prohibiting the hunting of deer during the year. 19 39 in the
Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward,
and in concessions IX and X of the Township of Cambridge in
the County of Russell.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
Conditions as they apply to fur-bearing animals throughout the Province
are summarized in the following references from reports submitted to the Department
by members of the Field Service Staff: —
BEAYER: — Conditions as they affected this species of splendid fur bearer fol-
lowing the period of complete protection which had prevailed for the past few years
were sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the provision of two short periods of open
season. The regulations which governed the taking of beaver during these periods
provided: —
(a) An open season from March 25th to April 15th, 1939, ef-
fective in that part of Ontario north and west of the French
and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, (including the
District of Manitoulin) and in the Districts of Parry Sound,
Muskoka, and Nipissing (south of the Mattawa River) and
the Counties of Victoria, Haliburton, Hastings, Renfrew,
Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Lanark. Trappers were
authorized to take not more than ten beaver, and pelts so
taken were to be disposed of by them not later than ten days
after the termination of the open season.
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(b) An open season from December 1st to December 21st, 1939,
effective in that part of Ontario north and west of the French
and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing (including the Dis-
trict of Manitoulin), and in the Districts of Parry Sound,
Muskoka and Nipissing (south of the Mattawa River) and
the Counties of Grey, Victoria, Haliburton, Hastings, Renfrew,
Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Lanark. Similar pro-
vision as in (a) as to limits of catch and disposition prevailed.
A total of 33,5 30 beaver were reported to have been taken during these
periods, and, while this would naturally decrease the stock, sufficient numbers re-
mained for purposes of replenishment.
FISHER: — This animal is practically extinct in Southern Ontario, and is ex-
tremely scarce in Northern Ontario. Very few taken in any single trapping season,
FOX: — Reported to be quite plentiful and showing signs of increasing in all
parts of Southern Ontario except in the lower counties in the southwestern peninsula
where they are reported to be scarce. They are not at all plentiful in the northern
portion of the Province, though there are scattered showings of improvement.
LYNX: — Prevalent only in the northern section of the Province, and even
there its numbers are extremely rare. Reports received indicate no favourable
change anywhere.
MARTEN: — Conditions similar to those for fisher and lynx. It is extremely
scarce in every section of the Province and there is no improvement reported.
MINK: — While there was a considerable increase in the number of pelts taken
during the season, this condition cannot be construed as representing an important
increase in the numbers of mink which exist throughout the Province. They are not
too plentiful anywhere and while reports of increasing numbers have been received
from some areas, there has been no general improvement and conditions were about
normal.
MUSKRAT: — Muskrat continues to provide a very substantial portion of the
revenue derived by trappers. The catch as compared with that of the previous year
showed an increase of more than 35%, possibly attributable to somewhat improved
conditions affecting the species and the fact that favourable weather conditions
prevailed during the trapping season, which was provided by special regulation
and at different periods in different areas. Notwithstanding the decided increase
in the take of muskrats this species requires continued protection to assist in its
development.
OTTER: — Found only in Northern Ontario and the more northerly areas of
Southern Ontario. It is not too plentiful in any section and the annual catch is
limited.
RACCOON: — Inhabits only Southern Ontario, where numbers remained about
the same with probable slight improvement in some areas. The catch during the
open season which prevailed was about normal.
SKUNK: — While this animal continues plentiful, prevailing market prices do
not encourage trappers to make any special effort for the taking of the same.
WEASEL: — This species is still very plentiful throughout the entire Pro-
vince, though it would appear not to be increasing to any great extent. However,
as in the case of skunk, prevailing market prices are not sufficient return to en-
courage trappers in the taking of weasel.
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Generally speaking trappers had a fairly profitable season, particularly in
areas where the special open season for beaver prevailed and having in mind the
increased muskrat catch.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of various species
of fur-bearing animals which were exported from and dressed within the Province
during the year under review in addition to the three years immediately preceding.
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (white)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
1936-37
476
238
2,117
4,156
35,232
360
17
2,081
1,464
33,930
170,239
3,779
14,243
87,950
78,643
2
1937-38
496
235
1,463
2,426
24,912
201
•47
1,284
1,709
22,766
343,972
3,737
13,194
61,576
79,853
5
1938-39
363
1,366
1,467
2,164
22,366
131
142
785
2,074
25,111
508,893
3,764
9,493
89,100
93,488
3
1939-40
295
33,530
1,382
981
19,925
101
36
514
1,790
36,518
689,706
4,101
14,493
74,176
95,832
2
According to information compiled in the Department from reports received
from various fur dealers it has been estimated that fur taken by trappers during the
season of 1939-40 was worth the total sum of $2,343,648.95, which is more than
twice as much as the proceeds of trapping operations produced in the previous
season. A large percentage of this increase was of course attributable to the proceeds
received from the sale of 33,530 beaver pelts involved which pelts have been es-
timated to be worth $581,745.50, and it may be interesting to note that practically
all these beaver pelts were exported from the Province.
In addition to the $2,343,648.95 derived from the sale of pelts taken by trap-
pers, it has been estimated that the sum of $1,050,463.55 was received by fur
farmers from the sale of their product, so that in all the entire fur production of the
Province was worth $3,394,112.50
FUR FARMING
During the year this industry continued to flourish, 1920 fur farms being
licensed, an increase of seven per cent over the premises licensed in the previous
year. Declaration of war just prior to the pelting season created some uncertainty
and while only a few ceased operating entirely there was a general tendency to
reduce breeding stock, especially silver fox.
Fur farming comprises, almost entirely, the propagation of foxes and mink.
This year the mink gained an ascendancy over the silver fox. There were 1,000 fur
farmers raising silver foxes in 1938 and 906 raising mink, whereas in 1939 there
were 1,116 raising mink and only 918 raising silver fox, and while breeding stocks
of silver foxes were reduced by twenty per cent mink increased in excess of five
12 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
per cent, and it is interesting to speculate the increase there might have been had
normalcy prevailed.
The subjoined comparative table shows the total breeding stock retained on
these licensed premises as at the first days of January in each of the four years
enumerated :-
1937
1938
1939
1940
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Bear
Marten
Otter
21
20
257
207
23,869
0
2
15,539
351
358
5
15
4
0
25
16
235
140
24,848
0
2
21,982
302
351
9
15
11
0
2
19
197
120
22,923
98
2
30,378
267
284
6
15
15
0
4
27
168
96
18,327
209
2
31,989
235
243
10
15
19
2
The fur records of the Department show that licensed fur farmers during the
year disposed of the following pelts taken from stock raised by them, viz: —
205 cross fox, 128 of which were exported and 77 tanned.
38,889 silver and black fox, 23,399 of which were exported and 15,490 tanned.
73 blue fox, 61 of which were exported and 12 tanned.
60,355 mink, 57,630 of which were exported and 2,725 tanned.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
During the year four Crown Game Preserves were established in southwestern
Ontario in accordance with the schedule appended hereto. In addition the area of the
Peasemarsh Crown Game Preserve, located in the County of Grey, was enlarged. The
number of these Crown Game Preserves in the Province now totals 121 covering an area
of approximately 6,101,029 acres.
Designation
County
Extent in Acres
Roselands Crown Game Preserve
Oakland Crown Game Preserve
xPeasemarsh Crown Game Preserve . .
Waterloo Crown Game Preserve
J. W. Crow Sanctuary
Halton
Brant
Grey
Waterloo
Norfolk
1,200
1,200
1,050
1,000
800
X Enlarged.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40 13
REGULATED GAME PRESERVE AREAS
The setting aside of certain townships as Regulated Areas had a two-fold
purpose, viz: — to ensure a larger measure of co-operation between the farmer and the
sportsman through establishing an additional amount of control and avoiding excessive
hunting in any one area; and the development of upland game birds, principally
pheasants, through intensive propagation and the added degree of protection which
pertains in these areas. Co-operation is stimulated by the fact that hunting in these
regulated townships is restricted, and control is exercised by the simple expedient of
requiring the hunter to provide himself with a special township license. These are
limited in numbers so far as non-residents of the township are concerned, so that
the general influx of outsiders to any one district is checked.
It should be noted that these Regulated Townships have been set aside at the
request of the municipal authorities concerned, and that they have endorsed the regu-
lations provided as tending to eliminate the friction which previously existed. The
Township Councils, in view of the restrictons in force, are discouraging the posting
of private lands as the success of the scheme depends upon the generous provision of
hunting facilities during prescribed open seasons.
As some confusion still exists in the mind of the sportsman as to the regula-
tions which apply, let us briefly summarize these. In the first place, these regulated
areas are closed to hunting except as prescribed by the Department. Provision has
therefore been made to provide an open season for pheasants and the necessary special
licenses are issued for this purpose. Intense propagation of pheasants has been carried
on by the Department and hundreds of birds released in each Regulated Township, in
order to ensure the success of this open season. Hunters, however, must provide
themselves with one of the special licenses for the township in which they desire to
hunt, and must confine their pheasant shooting to the township for which the license
has been purchased.
In addition to the pheasant hunting this special township license entitles the
holder to hunt rabbits between November 1st and February 28th in any regulated
township within the same county as that for which he possesses a pheasant license.
It will be obvious that such a Regulation provides a measure of control against
overcrowding, while at the same time it offers the sportsman extensive hunting facil-
ities within a defined area.
Other forms of hunting in these regulated townships are at the discretion of
the controlling organization. Groundhog shooting, for example, may be indulged in
only with the written consent of the controlling organization which is usually the
township council, and the possession of the groundhog license issued by the Department.
The controlling organization in each area may also authorize the shooting of
woodcock during the open season for same, but the hunter must be in possession of
the regular gun license issued by the Department and the written approval of the con-
trolling organization.
There is only one exception to the restrictions. It provides that nothing in the
regulations "bhall in any way apply to prohibit the hunting of wild ducks and wild
geese on any Regulated Game Preserve Area where such hunting is carried on in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations
and the Game and Fisheries Act; and except that this provision shall not apply in the
Township of Scarborough, County of York." The Township of Scarborough is part
of the York Sanctuary for Migratory Birds. The onus of proof that he was duck
hunting would be on the hunter and the suitability of the area for such must be
established.
The restrictions in these areas do not apply to the trapping of fur-bearing
animals, provided such is carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Game and
Fisheries Act, and no firearms are used for the purpose.
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We hope it will be clear to the sportsman that regulations and restrictions such
as are enumerated are the result of changed conditions which must continually be
faced. The land is no longer virgin forest; the public domain continues to shrink; and
private ownership has rights which must not be abused. Then, too, as the country-
develops the population increases, and the numbers of those interested in hunting
grows apace. This combination of circumstances does not lend itself to that freedom
of movement in pursuit of game which has been our privilege for generations past.
Gradually, therefore, we have experienced a tightening up in the interest of the game
as well as the hunter. In the case of the regulated townships a compromise has been
effected, which, if it receives the co-operation of all those most concerned, will do much
to foster the good relations which should exist between farmer and hunter.
Additional Townships incorporated into the scheme of Regulated Game Preserve
areas during the year 1939, are as follows: —
The Township of Marysburg South, in the County of Prince EMward;
The Townships of Pickering, Whitby, and Whitby East in the County of Ontario;
The Townships of Gwillimbury North and Vaughan in the County of York;
The Townships of Albion and Toronto Gore in the County of Peel;
The Townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya in the County of Halton;
The Township of Puslinch in the County of Wellington;
The Townships of Middleton and Walsingham North in the County of Norfolk;
and
The Townships of Aldborough and Malahide in the County of Elgin.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty statistics for the
current fiscal year and the three years preceding: —
Period
For year ending Mar. 31, 1937
For year ending Mar. 31, 1938
For year ending Mar. 31, 1939
For year ending Mar. 31, 1940
Timber
1,090
1,022
1,031
1.107
Brush
1,197
837
723
614
Pups
31
30
41
22
Total
2,318
1,889
1,795
1,743
Bounty &
Expenses
$33,360.63
27,474.24
25,357.00
25,058.12
Bounty is paid under the authority of the Wolf Bounty Act, R.S.O. 1937, chapter
355, which provides for basic rates of bounty, the same as in recent years, viz: — $15.00
on an adult and $5.00 on pups under the age of three months. In respect to wolves
killed in a County, bounty is paid by the County Treasurer, and forty per cent of
such bounty is rebated to the Counties by the Provincial Treasurer. In the northern
Districts the total bounty is paid by the Province.
During the fiscal year under review 1,316 claims were considered, in which
1,301 claims were paid. Fifteen claims on animals other than wolves or in cases
where insufficient evidence was submitted were rejected.
Bounty was collected by 1,012 persons, who received $25,925.00 of which $1,020.00
was paid by Counties and $24,905.00 by the Province.
Application for bounty was made on 1,753 wolves, 474 of which were killed by
farmers, 443 by trappers, 405 by Indians, and the balance by rangers, guides, etc. It
has been ascertained from information supplied with the various applications for
bounty that 837 of the wolves were taken by snares, 387 by trap, 347 were shot, 84
by methods not reported, and the balance by poison and misadventure. Of the pelts
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
15
submitted for bounty sixty-three per cent were timber wolves, thirty-five per cent
brush wolves, and two per cent were pups.
The following table sets forth in detail the sources of origin of the various
pelts for which application for bounty was made: —
ANALYSIS OF APPLICATIONS FOR WOLF BOUNTY
County or District
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Hastings
Huron
Kenora
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
Lennox and Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Ontario
Parry Sound
Patricia
Perth
Peterboro
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Victoria
Wellington
Totals
Number
of Timber
143
6
24
1
3
2
22
9
272
11
22
32
111
80
28
"e
95
20
12
67
137
1,111
Number
of Brush
85
6
1
*4
3
2
*i
94
1
2
"l
87
2
27
4
1
2
123
1
4
85
64
3
1
620
Number
of Pups
11
22
Total
Pelts
231
12
25
1
7
6
24
9
1
373
1
2
8
18
120
34
138
4
1
82
37
1
6
218
21
16
152
201
3
1
1,753
Total expenditures which were incurred in connection with the administration of
the Wolf Bounty Act were the sum of $25,058.12, of which as has been previously
stated, the sum of $24,905.00 was actually paid out as bounty, and details of which
payments are set forth in the following table: —
Brush Wolves 38 @ $ 6.00 $ 228.00
576 @ $15.00 8,640.00
614 $8,868.00
Timber Wolves 75 (g) $ 6.00 $ 450.00
1,032 @ $15.00 15,480.00
1,107 $15,930.00
Pups 1 @ $ 2.00 $ 2.00
21 @ $ 5.00 105.00
22 .TTTTTT! $ 107.00
TOTAL 1,743 $24,905.00
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
GENERAL
TOURIST OUTFITTERS:
The licensing of camps in Northern Ontario, in the area provided by the Game
and Fisheries Act was continued. The demand for accommodation encouraged some
expansion. Sixty-five permits were issued authorizing the establishment of new camps.
Six hundred and forty-two camps were licensed — a net increase of twelve per cent.
District
Licenses
Non-Resident Resident
Total
Algoma . . . .
Cochrane . . .
Kenora
Manitoulin .
Nipissing . . .
Parry Sound
Patricia . . . .
Rainy River
Renfrew . . . .
Sudbury . . . .
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total
22
3
9
6
5
3
3
60
83
5
123
52
90
107
2
22
10
59
3
26
582
92
5
145
55
99
113
2
27
10
62
3
29
642
DEPARTMENTAL BULLETIN:—
Conservation, as applied to wildlife, depends for its success upon public ap-
preciation of wildlife values and an understanding of the necessity for co-operation
with the Department in the many phases of its activities designed to ensure that these
values will not be impaired. As a means of developing and encouraging both of these
factors, the Department prepares and publishes a Bulletin covering all aspects of the
conservation programme. It deals with the work of propagation and restoration and
the many problems incidental to the protection and development of wildlife. It is
intended to be educational as well as informative and contains life history sketches of
the more important species of fish and game, as well as editorials emphasizing the
value of conservation and the part the public is expected to play in supporting the
work of the Department. It is non-technical in language and as a consequence has a
wider public appeal. During the year it appeared at regular bi-monthly intervals with
a circulation of over 1600 per issue which included the newspapers of the Province
and an extensive mailing list of sportsmen and other individuals. As the material
published in the Bulletin is frequently quoted in the press its sphere of influence
extends beyond the limits of its mailing list.
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT: —
The Game and Fisheries Laws are an important part of the general programme
of conservation. They are intended not only to regulate supply and demand, but also
to ensure that natural reproductive periods will not be interfered with. Where closed
seasons are in effect there is a sound biological or practical reason for same, and
where open seasons are restricted it is because the particular species involved will not
stand any excessive take over a lengthy period. Limits of catch and size where such
are involved, are regulatory measures intended to control by providing for a reason-
ably equitable distribution of the available resources. A moment's thought will con-
vince even the most indifferent that these regulations are of primary importance In
the interest of the sportsman himself and the administration of the resources. That
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
17
being so, it is essential that the public should be familiar with them, and that all
those who hunt or fish should strictly observe the regulations. To play the game
fairly according to the rules is the first essential to good sportsmanship. When, there-
fore, the public is urged to observe the laws it is a request for co-operation in the
management of a valuable trust. Non-observance of the regulations, however unim-
portant the details may seem, is unfair to that ever-increasing family of sportsmen
and nature lovers who conscientiously obey the laws and pursue their recreational
pleasures from the highest standard of sportsmanship.
There is an additional reason why the public should accept an ever-increasing"
share of the responsibility for the protection and proper use of of our wildlife re-
sources: we refer to their value — material and recreational. The material worth of
this important heritage cannot be properly computed but it is not too much to suggest
that thousands of our citizens derive their livelihood either directly or indirectly from
this natural resource. The commercial fishing industry, the fur business, transporta-
tion companies and tourist caterers — all these are directly interested, but in addition:
there are the allied industries which supply food, equipment and the requirements of
transportation and accommodation. This natural heritage is rich in material wealth,
and, being capable of renewing itself, becomes a perpetual annuity which only our
own shortsightedness will dissipate.
Amendments enacted by the Legislative Assembly and which became effective
during the year included the following provisions: —
(a) The pelts of bears taken by licensed hunters not to be subject to the pay-
ment of royalty when exported or tanned.
(b) Prohibiting the use of snares for any purpose in the Counties of Dundas,
Durham, Glengarry, Lanark and Stormont.
(c) Applicable in the Counties of Elgin, Haldimand, Middlesex, Oxford, Waterloo,
Lambton and Welland, a daily limit of catch of six cotton-tail rabbits and
prohibiting the sale or purchase of these animals.
(d) Prohibited hours for shooting to extend during the period between one-half
hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise.
• (e) Permitting the use for hunting purposes of an automatic shotgun so per-
manently plugged as to be capable of holding not more than three shells at
one time.
(f) Prohibiting the possession or use of rifles during the open season for
pheasants in areas where the said open season prevails.
(g) To provide that shipping coupons be attached to deer and moose hides dur-
ing transportation.
(h) To provide for the issuing of special permits to authorize the transportation
of the skins or pelts of fur-bearing animals by aeroplane or by any other
manner other than by express or parcel post; and providing a penalty for
any violation of this Section.
(i) Authorizing non-residents to include not more than fifty wild geese lawfully
killed by them among the game they are entitled to export in any one
season.
(j) Providing a penalty of not less than $10.00 and not more than $100.00 for
each maskinonge taken contrary to the Regulations which apply.
(k) Making it necessary to secure the approval of the Department before any
lease may be issued subsequent to the promulgation of this Regulation
granting exclusive fishing rights to any person in any stream or lake which
has been stocked with fish by the Department at any time after May 1st, 1934.
18 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
ENFORCEMENT SERVICE
To protect the resources which make hunting and fishing possible it is neces-
sary to maintain a large number of law enforcement officers. To curb game law
violators is just as essential as restocking our lakes and streams, and the pity is that
it should be necessary. The regulations are restrictive only as necessity demands,
while the limits are generous enough to satisfy all reasonable requirements. That
being so there appears to be little reason for violations, and yet the toll of destruction
by illegal means is too high to lightly pass over.
It will be obvious to the sportsman who is concerned with the future of his
sport that waste and extravagance are unnecessary evils which tax to the limit the
reproductive capacity of our wild life, aided by artificial propagation, to maintain a
normal supply to meet what, after all, is an abnormal demand. In order that our fish
and game resources may be wisely used for the benefit of the greatest number, pro-
tective measures, and protective officers to enforce these regulations are necessary,
but these can only function effectively when backed by the co-operation of the sports-
man and the weight of public opinion.
This enforcement service is provided by a staff of some ninety regular overseers,
whose services are augmented by the co-operation of members of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Police Force, while during the critical spring spawning period and in the fall
hunting season the services of sixty-two seasonal employees were retained to provide
additional patrol in the more important spawning and hunting areas.
Appointments as Deputy Game and Fisheries Wardens were provided to more
than nineteen hundred sportsmen who interest themselves in providing whatever
assistance it is possible for them to render in securing effective observance of the
various provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regulations in the areas in which
they reside and visit for recreational purposes, and the value of this co-operation
in controlling and preventing the abuse of sporting privileges it is difficult to estimate.
During 1939-40 there were some 1,779 cases in which offenders were appre-
hended by the various enforcement officers and in which cases various articles of
fishing, hunting and trapping equipment, game, fish and the pelts of lur-bearing
animals were seized at the time of apprehension. Reference to the various reports
of seizure submitted to the Department by the officers concerned indicates that such
seizures were made by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 1,578 cases, by Deputy Game
and Fisheries Wardens in 75 cases, by members of the Ontario Provincial Police force
in 32 cases, while in the remaining 94 cases the seizures were undertaken by co-
operative action among Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police.
Summarized the articles confiscated are as follows: —
Live animals in 11 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 189 cases
Firearms and ammunition in 651 cases
Fish in 235 cases
Nets and Fishing equipment in 257 cases
Fishing tackle (angling) in 130 cases
Pelts and Hides in 346 cases
Traps and Trapping equipment in 179 cases
Water Craft in 28 cases
Motor Vehicles in 9 cases
Lights in 26 cases
Spears in 71 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 60 cases
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40 19
^
By reason of the fact that various entries are included on some seizures there
is some apparent discrepancy in these figures when compared with the actual number
of seizures reported. This is explained when it is understood that reports in many
cases include traps and pelts, firearms and game, fishing tackle and fish, commercial
fishing nets and boats, furs and motor vehicles, traps and pelts, and lights, spears
and fish.
Included among the furs which were seized were 325 beaver, 29 fox, 97 mink,
1,067 muskrats, 11 otter, 53 raccoon, 80 weasel and smaller lots of skunk, fisher,
marten and bear, while some 82 deer hides were also seized.
The firearms seized included 103 heavy calibre rifles, 286 .22 calibre rifles, 115
single barrel shotguns, 118 double barrel shotguns, 44 repeating shotguns, 2 automatic
shotguns, 3 revolvers and 15 air guns.
Prosecution was undertaken in 1,387 cases, the actions being instituted by Game
and Fisheries Overseers in 1,315 cases, by Provincial Police in 56 cases, by Deputy
Game Wardens in 13 cases and by co-operative action in 3 cases. In 1,303 of these
actions convictions were registered, 6 9 charges were dismissed, and in 15 cases the
charges were withdrawn.
THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
Fish art of absorbing interest to many people. The small boy takes as much
pride in his string of perch or catfish as the man in his trout or black bass. Even
th^ angler who has patiently endeavoured to land a fish and returns home empty-
handed, carries with him the memory of pleasant and beautiful surroundings. Peace-
ful hours spent in hopeful vigilance are a wonderful mental incentive and the
imagination is given valuable exercise.
The hardy fisherman who wrestles a livelihood from the vast waters of the
Great Lakes and other commercially fished waters is chiefly concerned with the size
and maintenance of the catch, amount and condition of gear, market value of fish,
price of ice, salt, gasoline, and the state of the weather.
Among others interested in Ontario's fish and fisheries are the retailer, consumer
and government agencies.
Our Department has been careful to see that the fish are properly conserved
and, by means of protective and propagatory measures, the supply has been main-
tained at a high level.
HATCHERIES AND REARING STATIONS
Facilities were provided during the fiscal year 1939-40 for the hatching, rearing
and distribution of fish in a satisfactory and effective manner.
During the year the Department operated twenty-seven hatcheries and rearing
stations.
The new trout rearing station at Hill's Lake, vicinity of Charlton, Timiskaming
district, was operated for the first time. This station includes a modern fish hatchery
of adequate dimensions, consistent with an adequate and suitable water supply. The
hatchery proper can accommodate three million trout eggs in a satisfactory manner.
Fifteen raceways and four ponds are provided for rearing large numbers of trout to
the fingerling and yearling stages. In addition to these a pond is provided for parent
trout in order to maintain a satisfactory egg supply, thus making the hatchery self-
sustaining.
20 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
Temporary and subsidiary ponds were constructed in the vicinity of Brighton,
Northumberland county, to accommodate surplus trout during the fry and fingerling
stages.
The Belleville fish hatchery was dismantled since the operations conducted
there can be carried out more economically and effectively at the Glenora fish hatchery,
by making use of the Belleville equipment.
The construction of ponds for bass propagation is of very great value by sup-
plementing the work of nature in maintaining this very desirable game fish. Three
additional ponds were used for bass propagation at the Sandfield station, Manitoulin
Island, five at the Skeleton Lake station, Ullswater, Muskoka district, and one in the
vicinity of Havelock, Peterborough county. Nine of these ponds were used for wintering
trout fingerlings for distribution as yearlings the following spring.
A hatchery and pond located at the outlet of Deer Lake, vicinity of Havelock,
Peterborough county, were successfully used for the first time for the propagation of
maskinonge, in conjunction with a minnow forage pond. In addition to this, a suitable
area comprising approximately ten acres was set aside on Stoijy Lake, Peterborough
county, for the purpose of studying in an experimental way the conditions required
for the successful production of maskinonge in natural areas.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
Generally speaking, excellent progress was made in the culture and distribution
of the various species of fish handled. In this regard particular mention is made
of speckled trout, brown trout, small-mouthed black bass, maskinonge and yellow
pickerel, since the year's distribution of these species surpassed all previous records.
For the first time in the history of the Department, maskinonge were reared to sizeable
fingerlings by the pond method.
Speckled Trout:
The following statistics indicate the success being achieved and the progress
made in regard to the culture and distribution of yearling and older stages of this
important native fish.
1936 563,351
1937 1,183,223
1938 2,087,990
1939 2,982,874
In 1939, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand fingerlings were also dis-
tributed^ The distribution of fingerlings is undertaken if the number on hand cannot
1)6 accommodated in the hatcheries.
Brown Trout:
During the year, 375,070 yearlings and 29,954 fingerlings were planted in suit-
able streams in southern Ontario. The number of yearlings planted was more than
six times that of the previous year. A comparatively small number of fingerlings
were also planted. The result of the distribution of brown trout on the fishing in
streams of southern Ontario is most encouraging.
EaJnbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead trout
Good progress was made in regard to the rearing of rainbow trout yearlings;
an increased production of 244 per cent was obtained as compared with that of the
previous year.
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(b) Kamloops trout
An increased distribution of fingerlings of this valuable game fish, amounting
to 306.6 per cent, was obtained. The plan suggested in the previous annual report
of the Department, namely, to plant yearlings of this variety is being developed
satisfactorily and may be realized next year.
Lake Trout:
There was a decrease of 10 per cent in the distribution of the sum total of eyed
eggs and fry; and a decrease of 5.8 per cent in the distribution of fingerlings.
Rough and stormy weather on the Great Lakes in the fall of 1938 was respon-
sible to a great extent for this reduction. The Department relies entirely on the
collection of lake trout spawn by the commercial fishermen, assisted by the Depart-
ment's hatchery officers and spawntaking crews.
Whitefish :
There was an increase of approximately 0.9 per cent in the distribution of
whitefish fry as compared with that of the previous year.
Herring:
The distribution of herring fry was reduced by 22.5 per cent. Fluctuations in the
number of herring fry available from year to year may be correlated with the size of
the run and weather conditions.
Yellow Pickerel:
There was an increased distribution of fry amounting to approximately 20.6 per
cent over that of the previous year.
Following the usual practice approximately two million eyed eggs were handled
by the Sparrow lake hatchery, the fry being distributed in suitable places in Sparrow
lake.
Eyed pickerel eggs were exchanged with the State of Pennsylvania for eyed
brown trout eggs.
Small-mouthed Black Bass:
Exceptionally good progress was made in the culture of small-mouthed black
bass. The percentage increases of fry and fingerlings were 72.4 and 33.3 per cent,
respectively.
As a rtsult of bass harvesting operations, approximately the same number of
yearlings and adults were distributed as in the previous year. The harvesting operations
were carried out on Fox Lake, Kenora district; Bass lake. Rainy River district; and
Little Gull Lake, Haliburton county.
A number of large-mouthed black bass fingerlings were harvested from Wiltse
Creek, Leeds county, and Stony lake, Peterborough county.
Yellow Perch:
The distribution of perch fry showed an increase of 22.3 per cent over that
of the previous year, due to a good run of this desirable commercial species in the
vicinity of their natural spawning grounds at the west end of Lake Erie.
The perch eggs were collected in the vicinity of Kingsville under supervision
of our hatchery officers, and cultured to the fry stage in the Kingsville hatchery. In
view of the commercial value of the perch, this work is of considerable importance.
22 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
Maskinonge:
The distribution of maskinonge fry was approximately 33.4 per cent greater than
that of the previous year. This was due to the successful operation of the new hatchery
located at the outlet of Deer Lake, vicinity of Havelock, Peterborough county.
For the first time in the history of the Department, maskinonge fingerlings
(three to eight inches in length) were reared by the pond method. Although the num-
ber reared, namely 1,300, appears small, it should be remembered that this was an
initial trial, and gives promise of greater success in the future.
Our previous experiments revealed that there were two important factors which
should not be overlooked in the culture of maskinonge, namely:
(1) Providing a suitable and abundant food supply
(2) Preventing cannibalism, which invariably occurs in the absence of pro-
tection or lack of proper food staples.
A culture of Daphnia was introduced and the pond was fertilized with suitable
quantities of sheep manure and superphosphate throughout the season. A typical
maskinonge environment was simulated as closely as possible by planting aquatic
and semi-aquatic vegetation. Special efforts were made to provide as much leafy
vegetation as possible in order to protect the young maskinonge from each other and
from other predators.
A small pond adjacent to the maskinonge pond was used for the culture of the
blackhead minnow. The progeny of this important forage fish was used as food for
the growing maskinonge throughout the season. It was found necessary to supplement
the food requirements with minnows harvested from natural waters.
In addition to this experiment, an effort was made to determine the possibilities
of rearing maskinonge to fingerling sizes in a natural area. Dr. Paul F. Elson of the
Department of Biology, University of Toronto, undertook this particular phase of the
field work under the supervision of the Department. The area selected was a marshy
bay about ten acres in extent, located on Stony Lake in the vicinity of Burleigh Falls,
Peterborough county. The area was closed off from adjacent waters by barriers across
the two ends, which were respectively 50 feet and 150 feet wide. Screens
were placed in the barriers to allow circulation of water. The area is a natural
spawning ground for maskinonge and, hence, should be suitable for raising these
fish. The water throughout the area is from three to five feet deep; the bottom is
deep muck, permitting a rich growth of weeds. When the area was closed off, coarse
fish and other predators were netted out, sometime before and after the maskinonge
fry were planted. Altogether 17,883 coarse fish and 563 turtles were removed from the
area. Less than one-third of the coarse fish, and slightly over one-half of the turtles,
were removed previous to the planting of the maskinonge fry. On June 4th, 100,000
maskinonge fry, about three weeks old, and approximately five-eighths of an inch
long, were planted throughout the area in locations where natural food was most
abundant. At this time they were feeding on small aquatic animals, including water
fleas. These Crustacea were present in vast swarms near patches of cat-tail and
marsh grass. About mid-June the maskingonge commenced to feed on minnow fry,
which were abundant. Growth of the young maskinonge under natural conditions is
amazing, as is indicated by the following table:
Date June 6 July 5 Aug. 1 Sept. 1 Oct. 1 Nov. 1
Length of fish
in inches %" 3"-5" 4"-7" 6"-8" 7"-9" 8"-lli^"
Seventeen fish taken in November averaged between 9i^ to 10 inches in length.
The results of the first season's work may be summed up as follows:
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23
1. The rate of growth is very rapid during the first six months, the fish
reaching a length of approximately ten inches by that time.
2. A study of the food of the growing maskinonge showed that the areas fur-
nished abundant food for the very young and more advanced stages.
3. The young maskinonge remain in the area until the first of November which
indicates the advisability of planting hatchery raised fish in such areas.
4. Large numbers of undesirable predators occur in such areas.
5. Eighty-one advanced fingerlings were recovered, that is, a yield of 0.8
advanced fingerlings for each 1,000 fry planted. It is believed that a con-
siderable number of fingerlings were not recovered. Many predator fish,
namely, perch and rock bass remained in the area throughout much of the
experiment and these would undoubtedly cut down the yield.
6. It is safe to say that while the results obtained the first year of the experi-
ment were promising, much better results might be expected.
7. There is evidence to show that there is a migration of fish from such areas
in the fall and that sometime during the first year the maskinonge move
out, and that these movements might be used to advantage for harvesting
purposes.
CLOSED WATERS
One of the most promising methods of conserving the breeding stock of black
bass and maskinonge is to set aside portions of natural water areas. In these areas
the fish thrive without interference and spread to other parts of the same stream
or lake. In this way a permanent breeding stock is set up and we take each year only
the natural increase from it.
Closures of all such areas (with one exception) in the Kawartha watershed
were extended for a further period, and the same principle is being extended to im-
portant sections of the Rideau watershed.
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and pro-
pagation of fish, the following were closed during the year, April 1, 1939, to March 31,
1940:
BLACK RIVER,
Townships of Charlottenburg, County of Glengarry, Annual Closure, May 15 to
June 20, inclusive.
CRAFT'S CREEK,
Townships of Mountjoy, Jessop and Murphy, District of Cochrane.
DEEP BAY,
Township of Matchedash, County of Simcoe.
EMERALD LAKE,
Township of Parkman, District of Nipissing.
FINNIE'S CREEK,
Townships of Charlottenburg and Lancaster, County of Glengarry, Annual
closure. May 15 to June 20, inclusive.
LITTLE JOCKO RIVER,
West from Timiskaming Road, known as Morrow's Dam, east to the outlet in
the big Jocko River, District of Timiskaming.
NASH'S CREEK or HOASIE'S CREEK
Township of Williamsburg, County of Dundas, during the closed season for
black bass.
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OPINICON LAKE (Portion locally known as Drowned Land),
Township of Crosby South, County of Leeds.
OSBORNE, RAINBOW and HILL LAKES,
Township of Bridgland, District of Algoma.
PUMPHOUSE CREEK,
Townships of Cartier and Hart, District of Sudbury.
SUTHERLAND'S CREEK,
Township of Lancaster, County of Glengarry,
Annual closure. May 15 to June 20, inclusive.
WOODCOCK LAKE,
West of Restoule Lake in the Township of Patterson, District of Parry Sound.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Biological surveys were conducted in Timiskamin^ district on Bear, Beaverhouse,
Butler, Crystal, Dorothy, Joyce, Lawgraves, Mousseau and Sinkhole lakes, tributaries
and headwaters of Boston creek, tributary of Crooked creek; in Coclirane district on
Bobs, Elexo, Fahy, Graves, Horseshoe, Jean, Mary and Tom lakes, Jacob's creek; and
in Peel county on Caledon lakes, Caledon township.
The lagoons of Toronto Islands were studied to determine their suitability for
large-mouthed black bass.
Catfish creek in the vicinity of Aylmer was studied from the standpoint of the
effects of effluents from gas wells on fish life.
A study was made of the effect of a dam at the outlet of Buck Lake, Bedford
township, Frontenac county, on the fish and aquatic life in the lake.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Biology, Uni-
versity of Toronto, continued field and laboratory studies of lakes and streams in
Algonquin Park during 1939-40. An account of this important work was embodied
in the report of the previous year.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It is but fitting that acknowledgment be made of the splendid co-operation and
assistance received from the many Fish and Game Protective Associations throughout
the Province as well as from the Northern Ontario Tourist Trade Association, and the
members of both groups. The result of this organized effort among those directly in-
terested in our fish and game resources is refiected in the general attitude of sports-
men towards the protection of this division of our Provincial natural resources.
Never before has the public generally been more conservation minded, and the part
played by these Associations in bringing about this happy state of affairs is greatly
appreciated.
Members of the inside staff as well as the field service of the Department have
as a general rule performed their duties conscientiously, and in their dealings with the
public have been courteous and helpful, having in mind the various interests and
activities of the Department.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Toronto, D. J. TAYLOR,
March 31st, 1941. Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
APRIL 1st, 1939, to MARCH 31st, 1940.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FINGERLINGS
Halton:
Twelve Mile Creek 1,200
Peterborough :
Upper Stony Lake 690
ADULTS
Peterborough:
Stony Lake 497
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce:
Chesley Lake 10,000
Saugeen River 10,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 15,000
Frontenac:
Crow Lake 5,000
Loughborough Lake 5,000
Sydenham Lake 5,000
Hastings :
Baptiste Lake 10,000
Bass Lake 10,000
Big Salmon Lake 5,000
Burnt Lake 5,000
Crow River 5,000
Gull Lake 5,000
Gunter Lake 5,000
Jordon Lake 5,000
Moira Lake 10,000
Moira River 10,000
Oak Lake 10,000
Otter Lake. 10,000
Parks Creek 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Spring Lake 5,000
Stoco Lake 5,000
Tongamong Lake 5,000
Trent River 10,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Wadsworth Lake 5,000
Woods Lake 5,000
Huron:
Lake Lakelet 10,000
Lambton:
Sydenham River 20,000
Lanark :
Long Lake 5,000
Mississippi Lake 10,000
Mississippi River 5,000
Pike Lake 5,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake (South) 5,000
Cedar Lake 5,000
Donohue Lake 5,000
Duck Lake 5,000
Lime Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Salmon River 5,000
Shircliff Lake 5,000
Weslemkoon Lake 5,000
White Lake 5,000
Muskoka:
MacKay Lake 5,000
Prospect Lake 5,000
Norfolk:
Little Lake 10,000
Northumberland :
Silver Lake 20,000
Trent River 60,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 20,000
Parry Sound:
Bass Lake 5,000
Blackstone Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Crane Lake 5,000
Hamers Lake 5,000
Horseshoe Lake 5,000
Isabella Lake 5,000
Lake Joseph 5,000
Lake Rosseau 5,000
Lynch Lake 5,000
Massie Lake 5,000
Portage Lake 5,000
Rainey Lake 5,000
Rankins Lake 5,000
Ruth Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Sucker Lake 5,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Turtle Lake 5,000
Wolf Lake 5,000
Peterborough:
Barney's Lake 5,000
Big Beaver Lake 5,000
Big Cedar Lake 5,000
Buckhorn Lake 15,000
Catchacoma Lake 5,000
Chemong Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 10,000
Connelly Lake 5,000
Cox Lake 5,000
Crab Lake 5,000
Crystal Lake 10,000
Deer Bay 10,000
Deer Lake 5,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940.
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Peterborough — Continued
Eel's Lake 15,000
Indian River 5,000
Jack's Lake 15,000
Kashnabog Lake 10,000
Katchawanooka Lake 5,000
Little Lake 10,000
Little Cedar Lake 5,000
Little Mud Lake 5,000
Little Trout Lake 10,000
Long Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 10,000
Lovesick Lake 10,000
Mississauga Lake 5,000
Mississauga River 5,000
Oak Lake 10,000
Otonabee River 5,000
Pencil Lake 5,000
Pigeon Lake 10,000
Salmon Lake 20,000
Sandy Lake 5,000
Stony Lake 5,000
Trent River 5,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Twin Lakes 5,000
White Lake 10,000
Prince Edward:
Black Lake 10,000
Roblins Lake 5,000
West Lake 10,000
Renfrew:
Barry's Bay 10,000
Calabogie Lake 10,000
Constant Lake 5,000
Hurd's Lake 10,000
Jack's Chutes 15,000
Madawaska River
(Hydes' Bay) 10,000
Mink Lake 10,000
Simcoe:
Black Lake 10,000
Deep Bay Sanctuary 20,000
Gloucester Pool 20,000
Kempenfeldt Bay 20,000
Little Lake 20,000
Six Mile Lake 20,000
Sudbury:
Ella Lake 6,000
Fairbanks Lake 5,000
Johnny Lake 5,000
Lake Agnew 7,500
Lake Penage 10,000
Whitewater Lake 7,500
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 20,000
Burnt River 20,000
Cameron Lake 40,000
Head Lake 10,000
Lake Dalrymple 30,000
Mud Turtle Lake 30,000
Pigeon Creek 20,000
Pigeon Lake 20,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Smudge Lake 20,000
Sturgeon Lake 30,000
Waterloo:
Grand River 10,000
Paradise Lake 10,000
River Nith 10,000
Wellington:
Allan's Dam 10,000
Puslinch Lake 10,00C
River Speed 10,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 20,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Alma Lake
Appleby Lake
Bass Lake (Aberdeen) .
Bass Lake (Striker) . . .
Birch Lake
Boundary Lake
Caribou Lake
Carpenter Lake
Cloudy Lake
Cummings Lake
Darrell Lake
Desbarats Lake
Diamond Lake
Duborne Lake
Duck Lake
Elbow Lake
Friendly Lake
Gordon Lake
Iron Lake
Lauzon Lake
Little Clear Lake
Lonely Lake
Lost Lake
Marie Lake
McCarroll Lake
Miller Lake
Mine Lake
Mountain Lake
Prospect Lake
Rock Lake
Stuart Lake
Unnamed Lake (U. Tp.)
Brant:
Grand River
Mohawk Lake
Bruce:
Berry's Lake
Boat Lake
Isaac Lake
Pine River
Saugeen River
500
500
750
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
750
500
500
500
500
750
1,000
750
500
500
750
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
65
2,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 19-59, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHtD BLACK BASS
— Continued
Cochrane:
Departure Lake 500
Durham:
Pigeon River 1,000
Elgin:
Pinafore Lake 500
Union Pond 500
F'-ontenac :
Bass Lake (Olden) 500
Bass Lake (Bedford) 1,000
Big Clear Lake 1,000
Big Gull Lake 1,000
Big Lake 750
Black Lake 750
Blue Lake 500
Bobs Lake 1,000
Brule Lake 1,000
Buck Lake 3,000
Collins Lake 1,000
Cranberry Lake 1,000
Cross Lake 1,000
Crotch Lake 1,000
Crow Lake 1,000
Draper Lake 1,000
Eagle Lake 1,750
Fortune Lake 1,000
Green Bay 500
Gull Lake 1,250
Horseshoe Lake 1,000
Kashwakamak Lake 1,000
Long Lake (Olden) 1,000
Long Lake (Portland) 500
Loughborough Lake 1,000
Mink Lake 500
Mississagagon Lake 2,000
Pine Lake 750
Rock Lake 500
St. George Lake 500
Salmon River 1,000
Sand Lake 1,000
Sharbot Lake 1,000
Spectacle Lake 500
Sunday Lake 1,000
Sydenham Lake 1,000
Wolfe Lake 1,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 1,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 3,000
Haliburton:
Black Lake 750
Devils Lake 500
Gull Lake 500
Halton:
Twelve Mile Creek 2,000
Hastings:
Bow Lake 500
Gunter Lake 500
Little Salmon Lake 500
Huron :
Maitland River 1,000
Lanark:
Bennet Lake 1,000
Black Lake 750
Christie Lake 1,000
Clear Lake 500
Dalhousie Lake 750
Kerr's Lake 750
Patterson's Lake 750
Rideau Lake 1,000
Robertson Lake 500
Round Lake 750
Silver Lake 1,000
Spectacle Lake 500
Leeds:
Benson Lake 1,000
Big Rideau 750
Charleston Lake 1,000
Crow Lake 750
Gananoque Lake 750
Grippen Lake 750
Little Cranberry Lake 1,000
Little Rideau 500
Loon Lake 750
Lower Beverley Lake 750
Lower Rideau 1,000
Newboro Lake 1,000
Opinicon Lake 1,000
St. Lawrence River 2,500
Sand Lake 1,500
Singleton Lake 500
South Lake 750
Traynor Lake 750
Whitefish Lake 1,000
Lennox-Addington :
Mazinaw Lake 1,000
Manitoulin:
Manitou Lake 1,000
McGregor Bay 2,000
Middlesex
Thames River 10,000
Muskoka :
Bass Lake 750
Clearwater Lake 750
Crooked Lake 2,000
Dickie Lake 1,000
Kahshe Lake 500
Leonard Lake 500
Long Lake 500
Longford Lake 2,000
Menominee Lake 1,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Muskoka — Continued
Muskoka Lake 500
Riley Lake 500
Round Lake 1,000
Severn River 2,000
Six Mile Lake 2,000
Tookes Lake 1,000
Trading Lake 200
Nipissing:
Bear Lake 1,500
Blackwater Lake 500
Bruce Lake 1,000
Cache Lake 500
Champlain Lake 500
Chibosamog Lake 500
French River 1,500
Little Martin Lake 1,000
Long Lake 1,000
Martin Lake 1,000
McPhee Lake 1,000
Moore Lake 500
Muskosung Lake 500
Nipissing Lake 2,500
Nosbonsing Lake 500
Opechee Lake 1,000
Poplar Lake 1,000
Rainey Lake 500
Rock Island Lake 1,000
Sawyer Lake 500
Spruce Lake 1,000
Talon Lake 1,000
Tilden Lake 1,000
Timagami Lake 1,000
Tomiko Lake 1,000
Turtle Lake 500
Wickstead Lake 1,000
Norfolk:
Oakland Pond 210
Sutton's Pond 3,000
Ontario:
Mud Lake 1,000
Severn River 1,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 500
Arthur Lake 500
Bass Lake 750
Beaver Lake (Bethune) 500
Beaver Lake (Croft) 500
Beaver Lake (Foley) 500
Blackwater Lake 500
Brimson Lake 500
Burnt Lake 500
Caribou Lake 500
Cecebe Lake 500
Charter Lake 750
Clear Lake 750
Coles Lake 500
Commanda Lake 750
Crooked Lake 750
Deer Lake (Ferry)
Deer Lake (Lount)
Deer Lake (Wilson)
Dobbs Lake
Doe Lake
Duck Lake
Eagle Lake
Etta Lake
Horseshoe Lake
Island Lake
Kawigamog Lake
Kidd Lake
Little Clam Lake
Little Long Lake
Long Lake
Manitowaba Lake
Many Island Lake
Mary Jane Lake
McQuaby Lake
McVeety Lake
Memesagamesi Lake
Miners Lake
Moose Lake
Morgan's Bay
Mud Lake
Nipissing Lake
Pickerel Lake
Pickerel River
Pipe Lake
Portage Lake
Rainey Lake
Restoule Lake
Round Lake
Seagull Lake
Sequin River
Shebeshekong Lake
Shells Lake
Shoal Lake
Spring Lake
Stanley Lake
Stormy Lake
Tea Lake
Toad Lake
Wilson Lake
Wolf River
Woodcock Lake
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake
Buckhorn Lake
Round Lake
Stony Lake
Renfrew:
Green Lake
Lake Dore
Olmstead Lake
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool
Nottawasaga River
Park Lake (Tay Township)
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River
500
1,000
500
750
500
500
2,000
500
500
750
500
500
500
500
750
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
750
500
1,000
500
500
500
500
500
500
750
750
500
500
500
500
500
750
500
750
750
750
500
500
500
500
850
1,000
1,000
2,000
750
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Sudbury:
Beaver Lake 500
Bowes Lake 500
Charlton Lake 500
Cranberry Lake 500
Cutler Lake 500
Emerald Lake 1,000
French River 1,000
Frood Lake 500
LaCloche Lake 500
Maple Lake 500
Nepahawin Lake 500
Nipissing Lake 500
Ramsay Lake 500
Third Lake 750
Trout Lake 500
Wanapitei River 500
Whitson Lake 500
Timiskaming:
Baarts Lake 500
Bass Lake 500
Beaverhouse Lake 500
Butler Lake 500
Davis Lake 500
Emerald Lake 500
Herridge Lake 500
Sesekinika Lake 500
Victoria Lake 500
Waterloo:
Dean's Lake 1,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 750
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Bruce:
Wiarton Bay 150
Haliburton:
Big Bob Lake 125
Blue Hawk Lake 125
Bradys Lake 125
Canning Lake 125
Cranberry Lake 125
Davis Lake 125
Deer Lake 90
Elephant Lake 130
Grass Lake 125
Grass River 125
Head Lake 130
Horseshoe Lake 125
Hurricane Lake 130
Kashagawigamog Lake 225
Koshlong Lake 125
Rainbow Lake 130
Kenora:
Birch Lake
Corner Lake
Dryberry Lake
Eva Lake
Laurenson's Lake
Long Lake
Longbow Lake
Mack Lake
Sabaskong Bay
Landlocked Lake — Winnipeg
River
Manitoulin:
Lake Manitou
Muskoka:
Buck Lake
Clearwater Lake
Deer Lake
Lake Muskoka
Lake Rosseau
Skeleton Lake
Wood Lake
Norfolk :
Gravel Pit Pond
Little Lake
Oakland Pond
Sutton's Pond
Waterford Gravel Pit Pond
Waterford Pond
Parry Sound:
Beaver Lake
Gooseneck Lake
Jack's Lake
Limestone Lake
Loon Lake
Magnetawan River
Manson Lake
Shawanaga Lake
Trout Lake
Wawashkesh Lake
Whitestone Lake
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake
Deer Lake
Round Lake
Stony Lake
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake
Little Pete Lake
One-Sided Lake
Thunder Bay:
Kashabowie Lake
100
38
78
80
60
37
98
113
399
85
468
100
100
100
100
100
220
100
50
56
23
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
53
52
51
17
125
360
206
135
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
MASKINONGE
EGGS
Peterborough:
Experimental purposes . .
120,000
FRY
Carleton:
Rideau River 25,000
Grenville:
Rideau River 25,000
Hastings:
Bay of Quinte 10,000
Crow River 15,000
Ketcheson Creek 5,000
Moira Lake 25,000
Moira River 25,000
Sears Lake 15,000
Stoco Lake 25,000
Tongamong River 25,000
Trent River 25,000
Unamed Stream near
Frankford 5,000
Whetstone River 25,000
Leeds :
St. Lawrence River 25,000
Muskoka:
Kahshe Lake 25,000
Sparrow Lake 25,000
Nipissing:
Lake Nipissing 25,000
Northumberland :
Rice Lake 100,000
Trent River 130,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 20,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 50,000
Buckhorn Lake 50,000
Clear Lake 200,000
Deer Bay 100,000
Indian River 50,000
Kashabog Lake 25,000
Katchawanooka Lake 65,000
Lake Chemong 100,000
Little Lake 10,000
Little Mud Lake 25,000
Lovesick Lake 50,000
Otonabee River 50,000
Pigeon Lake 100,000
Round Lake 50,000
Stony Lake 100,000
Trent River & Rice Lake . . . 50,000
White Lake 25,000
Prince Edward:
Muscote Bay 25,000
Smith's Bay 25,000
West Lake 15,000
Renfrew:
Bass Lake 10,000
Black Lake 15,000
Cory Lake 15,000
Cushene Lake 15,000
Otterson Lake 10,000
Petawawa River 10,000
Redbridge Lake 20,000
Simcoe:
Severn River 50,000
Thunder Bay:
Lac des Mille Lacs 5,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 50,000
Burnt River 25,000
Cameron Lake 75,000
Gull River 25,000
Lake Dalrymple 25,000
Mud Turtle Lake 25,000
Pigeon Creek 50,000
Pigeon Lake 50,000
Pigeon River 200,000
Scugog Lake 50,000
Silver Lake 15,000
Sturgeon Lake 150,000
Waterloo:
Nith River 15,000
Wentworth :
Hamilton Bay 5,000
FINGERLINGS
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake
Clear Lake
Katchawanooka Lake
Pigeon Lake
Stony Lake
PEBCH
FRY
30
70
500
500
200
Lake Erie 70,360,000
Lake St. Clair 2,000,000
PICKEREL
EYED EGGS
Exchange 5,000,000
Sparrow Lake 2,000,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
FRY
Algoma:
Allan Lake 700,000
Anjigami Lake 200,000
Bear Lake 400,000
Bright Lake 250,000
Caribou Lake 200,000
Cummings Lake 250,000
Dean Lake 100,000
Desbarats Lake 150,000
Echo Lake 100,000
Gordon Lake 400,000
Goulais River . 300,000
Granary Lake 500,000
Hill Lake 150,000
Horseshoe Lake 250,000
Lake of the Mountains 300,000
Little Basswood Lake 500,000
Little Clear Lake 500,000
Pipe Lake 250,000
Rock Lake 450,000
Round Lake 100,000
Spanish River 500,000
Sugar Lake 250,000
Bruce:
Agar Lake 500,000
Boat Lake 250,000
Chesley Lake 500,000
Isaac Lake 500,000
Sky Lake 250,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 500,000
Cochrane:
Carman Bay 60,000
Frederick House Lake 80,000
Frederick House River 250,000
Night Hawk River 80,000
Redstone River 60,000
Reid Lake 70,000
Remi Lake 200,000
Silver Queen Lake 80,000
Frontenac:
Antoine Lake 250,000
Bass Lake 200,000
Big Clear Lake 300,000
Big Gull Lake 850,000
Big Lake 200,000
Bobs Lake 750,000
Crosby Lake 500,000
Cross Lake 300,000
Crotch Lake (Kennebec) ... 200,000
Crotch Lake (Palmerston) . . 800,000
Crow Lake 250,000
Green Lake 300,000
Green Bay Lake 250,000
Gull Lake 850,000
Horseshoe Lake 200,000
Kashwakamak Lake 1,250,000
Long Lake (Olden) 200,000
Long Lake (Portland) 250,000
Malcolm Lake 300,000
Mink Lake 500,000
Mississagagon Lake 500,000
Mississippi River 1,000,000
Red Pine Lake 250,000
Round Lake 250,000
Sand Lake 250,000
Second Depot Lake 100,000
Sydenham Lake 400,000
Upper Rideau 1,000,000
West Rideau 250,000
Grenville:
Nation River 500,000
Rideau River 500,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 250,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 1,000,000
Haliburton:
Cauntaus Lake 1,000,000
Elephant Lake 1,000,000
Paudash Lake 1,500,000
Wolf Lake 1,000,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 800,000
Bartlett's Lake 150,000
Crow La}^e 1,500,000
Eraser Lake 200,000
Lime Lake 100,000
Mallard Lake 200,000
Moira Lake 800,000
Moira River 1,000,000
Salmon Trout Lake 200,000
Sears Lake 100,000
Stoco Lake 300,000
Trent River 1,000,000
Kenora:
Black Sturgeon Lake 6,000,000
Blindfold Lake 3,000,000
Bowden Lake 750,000
Cache Lake 500,000
Eagle Lake 2,000,000
Gun Lake 1,000,000
Lake Lulu 1,500,000
Lake of Two Mountains 1,500,000
Lake of the Woods 29,000,000
Long Bow Lake 1,500,000
Separation Lake 750,000
Shoal Lake 6,000,000
Wabigoon Lake 2,000,000
Winnipeg River 4,500,000
Lanark :
Barbers Lake 200,000
Beaver Lake 300,000
Bennet's Lake 425,000
Black Lake 250,000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Lanark — Continued
Caldwell Lake 200,000
Christie Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 250,000
Dalhousie Lake 325,000
Gillies Lake 250,000
Horns Lake 200,000
Kerrs Lake 400,000
Little Joe's Lake 200,000
Mississippi Lake 600,000
Mississippi River 650,000
Otty Lake 600,000
Patterson's Lake 300,000
Rivens Lake 200,000
Robertson Lake 200,000
Spectacle Lake 250,000
Leeds :
Bass Lake 400,000
Crow Lake 200,000
Higgley Lake 500,000
Little Rideau 600,000
Loon Lake 200,000
St. Lawrence River 1,000,000
Sand Lake 250,000
Traynor Lake 200,000
Wolfe Lake 250,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake 200,000
Duck Lake 200,000
Long Lake 600,000
Mazinaw Lake 600,000
Napanee River 4,000,000
North Beaver Lake 350,000
Salmon Lake 1,000,000
Sixth Lake 600,000
South Beaver Lake 350,000
White Lake 350,000
Manitoulin:
Burnt Lake 500,000
Mindemoya Lake 1,500,000
South Bay 500,000
Muskoka:
Axel's Lake 100,000
Bala Bay 1,000,000
Bear Trail Lake 50,000
Brandy Lake 500,000
Crooked Lake 500,000
Gull Lake 500,000
Indian River 250,000
Kahshe Lake 250,000
Leonard Lake 450,000
Long Lake 30,000
Mootes Lake 50,000
Muskoka Lake 300,000
North Lake 50,000
Riley Lake 250,000
Severn River 750,000
Three Mile Lake 500,000
Webster Lake 250,000
Nipissing:
Bouleau River 200,000
Bruce Lake 250,000
Diamond Lake 140,000
French River 2,000,000
Gull Lake 140,000
Horseshoe Lake 70,000
Lake Champlain 50,000
Lake Nipissing 2,250,000
Lake Timagami 2,000,000
Marion Lake 70,000
Martin Lake (Gladman) 500,000
Martin Lake (Sisk.) 250,000
Martin River 280,000
McPhee Lake 300,000
Moose Lake 70,000
Nosbonsing Lake 80,000
Opechee Lake 250,000
Pimisi Lake 200,000
Sheeby Lake 70,000
Talon Lake 80,000
Tilden Lake 50,000
Tomiko Lake 280,000
Twin Lakes 250,000
Wasaksina Lake 140,000
Wickstead Lake 500,000
Northumberland :
Mud Lake 400,000
Rice Lake 1,500,000
Trent River 4,600,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 250,000
Mud Lake 250,000
Severn River 500,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 100,000
Bass Lake 200,000
Beaver Lake (Croft) 50,000
Blackstone Lake 600,000
Brimson Lake 200,000
Callander Bay 1,500,000
Caribou Lake 30,000
Cecebe Lake 80,000
Clear Lake 200,000
Commanda Lake 250.000
Crane Lake 200,000
Crooked Lake 200.000
Deer Lake 50.000
Dobbs Lake 50,000
Doe Lake 100,000
Duck Lake 20,000
Isabella Lake 300,000
Jacks Lake 80,000
Kawigamog Lake 80,000
Lake of Many Islands 50,000
Lennon Lake 200,000
Little Long Lac 30,000
Long Lake 50,000
Loon Bay 500,000
Magnetawan River 280,000
Manitowaba Lake 500,000
Manson Lake 250,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
33
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Parry Sound — Continued
McKellar Lake 400,000
McKeown Lake 100,000
McVeety Lake 200,000
Memesagamesi Lake 100,000
Minerva Lake 200,000
Nipissing Lake 2,900,000
Oastler Lake 500,000
Otter Lake 750,000
Owl Lake 300,000
Pickerel Lake 200,000
Pickerel River 130,000
Potage Lake 500,000
Rainy Lake 250,000
Restoule Lake 700,000
Rosseau Lake 1,500,000
Ruth Lake 100,000
Shawanaga Lake 100,000
Shebeshekong Lake 70,000
Shoal Lake 200,000
Six Mile Lake 70,000
Squaw Lake 400,000
Stanley Lake 50,000
Stewart Lake 200,000
Stormy Lake 200,000
Tea Lake 150,000
Third Lake 200,000
Wawashkesh Lake 1,500,000
Whitestone Lake 300,000
Wilson Lake 60,000
Wolfe River 30,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 1,500,000
Chemong Lake 1,000,000
Connolly's Lake 500,000
Deer Bay 500,000
Deer Lake 2,000,000
Deer River 2,300,000
Indian River 1,500,000
Little Cedar Lake 500,000
Little Lake 200,000
Long Lake 1,000,000
Loon Lake 1,500,000
Lovesick Lake 500,000
North River 1,000,000
Oak Lake 1,500,000
Otonabee River 3,000,000
Pigeon Lake 1,000,000
Round Lake 1,500,000
Trent River 400,000
Twin Lakes 150,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 6,150,000
Consecon Lake 900,000
Smith's Bay 1,250,000
West Lake 300,000
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake 3,000,000
Lake of the Woods 24,000,000
One-sided Lake 3,000,000
Pine Lake 1,500,000
Rainy Lake 8,000,000
Sabaskong Bay 12,000,000
Steeprock Lake 6,000,000
Renfrew :
Black's Bay 500,000
Calabogie Lake 500,000
Coulas Lake 225,000
Cushene Lake 125,000
Golden Lake 625,000
Hazel Bay 250,000
Hond's Lake 125,000
Madawaska River 125,000.
Meilleur's Bay 250,000
Muskrat Lake 500,000
Norway Lake 125,000
Petawawa River 250,000
Sturgeon Lake 250,000
T. Lake 250,000
White Lake, 500,000
Simcoe :
Black Lake 250,000
Gloucester Pool 1,250,000
Little Lake 250,000
Nottawasaga River 100,000
Severn River 675,000
Six Mile Lake 500,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 1,850,000
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake 750,000
Bisco Lake 500,000
Charlton Lake 400,000
Cranberry Lake 300,000
Crooked Lake 250,000
Cross Lake 250,000
French River 2,300,000
Frood Lake 250,000
Hanna Lake 250,000
La Cloche Lake 200,000
Long Lake 700,000
Makido Lake 500,000
Maple Lake 250,000
Middle Lake 250,000
Minisinakwa Lake 500,000
Moose Lake 200,000
Murray Lake 300,000
Nepiwasy Lake 150,000
Onaping Lake 1,000,000
Pashy Lake 500,000
Penage Lake 1,750,000
Peterson's Bay 750,000
Ramsay Lake 1,000,000
Silver Lake 300,000
Slaterock Lake 500,000
Spanish River 750,000
Trout Lake (Cherriman) . . 250,000
Trout Lake (Tilton) 250,000
Upper Sturgeon 200,000
Wanapitei Lake 1,000,000
Whitson Lake 250,000
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DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Timiskaming:
Gillies Lake 140,000
Giroux Lake 30,000
Granite Lake 50,000
Kenogami Lake 200,000
Lady Evelyn Lake 70,000
Long Lake 80,000
Montreal River 80,000
Mortimer Lake 70,000
Net Lake 50,000
Obuskong Lake 140,000
Reid Lake 70,000
Rib Lake 170,000
Round Chute 30,000
Round Lake 80,000
Petersen Lake 80,000
Sesekinika Lake 250,000
Sharpe Lake 70,000
Timiskaming Lake 640,000
Twin Lakes ' 60,000
Victoria Lake 80,000
Wendigo Lake 100,000
Wilson Lake 70,000
Victoria :
Burnt River 150,000
Dalrymple Lake 250,000
Head Lake 250,000
Little Turtle Lake 500,000
Mud Turtle Lake 250,000
Great Lakes:
North Channel 7,300,000
Georgian Bay 425,000
Lake Huron 41,450,000
Lake Superior 1,500,000
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Grey:
Feeders Saugeen River . . .
Feeders Styx River
19,954
10,000
YEARLINGS
Brant:
Branch Creek 5,700
Whiteman's Creek 9,600
Bruce:
Austin Fladd Mill Dam 1,800
Crane River 3,900
Lockerby Creek 7,600
Plum Creek 5,400
Saugeen River 10,800
Snake Creek 5,700
Sucker Creek 1,900
Teeswater River 3,600
Vogt's Creek 2,700
Willow Creek 1,800
Durham :
Baldwin's Creek 1,260
Bowmanville Pond 2,400
Laing's Stream 800
Stephen's Creek 2,400
Elgin:
Big Creek 3,000
Big Otter 3,600
Grey:
Big Head River 14,400
Lueck's Mill Pond 8,400
Potawatami River 3,600
Saugeen River 11,700
Styx River 8,100
Sydenham River 8,100
Weatherspoon Creek 1,000
Haldimand:
Rogers Creek 1,000
Halton:
Sixteen Mile Creek 10,800
Twelve Mile Creek 10,800
Hastings:
Beaver Creek 3,200
Black Creek 3,200
Little Mississippi River 3,200
Rawdon Creek 3,400
Squire's Creek 3,200
Huron:
Maitland River 9,000
Nine Mile River 3,600
Lambton:
Bear Creek 2,000
Lincoln:
Effingham Stream 1,000
Twelve Mile Creek 225
Middlesex:
Medway Creek 7,210
Norfolk :
Big Creek 9,900
Little Otter Creek 10,800
Nanticoke Creek 8,150
Northumberland:
Bowen's Pond 1.900
Cole's Pond 1,500
Dudley's Pond 1,900
Ontario:
Chubtown Creek 3,000
Oxford :
Burns Creek 1,800
Horner's Creek 3,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
BROWN TROUT— Continued
Peel:
Credit River 3,100
Perth:
Avon River 5,000
Halfway House Creek 700
Peterborough:
Baxter Creek 6,000
Cavan Creek 3,000
Deer Bay Creek 9,000
Eel's Creek 9,600
Jack's Creek 9,600
Mississauga Creek 6,000
Mississauga River 6,400
Mount Pleasant Creek 2,000
North River 6,400
Otter Creek 1,400
Simcoe:
Boyne River 2,100
Nottawasaga River 21,600
. Willow Creek 13,350
Waterloo:
Bridgeport Dam 1,800
Dentinger Creek 3,000
Fisher Mill Dam 1,800
Welland:
Lyon's Creek 6,000
Wellington:
Guelph Waterworks Stream 75
Speed River 10,800
Wentworth :
Spencer Creek 2,100
York:
Hoover's Pond 200
Humber River 10,900
Miscellaneous:
Private waters
(Experimental) 100
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGGS
Exchange 1,845,850
FRY
Frontenac:
Big Gull Lake 60,000
Blue Lake 10,000
Brule Lake 20,000
Buck Lake (Barrie) 25,000
Buck Lake (Bedford) 10,000
Buckshot Lake 30,000
Camp Lake 15,000
Crotch Lake 35,000
Crow Lake 20,000
Desert Lake 10,000
Devil Lake 20,000
Dog Lake 20,000
Draper Lake 15,000
Eagle Lake 60,000
Fortune Lake 30,000
Grindstone Lake 30^00
Kashwakamak Lake 40,000
Little Rock Lake 15,000
Little Salmon Lake 15,000
Loughborough Lake 40,000
Lucky Lake 15,000
Mackie Lake 15,000
Mississagon Lake 25,000
Palmerston Lake 25,000
Reid's Lake 15,000
Rock Lake 15,000
Round Schooner Lake 15,000
Sharbot Lake 30,000
West Rideau Lake 30,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 90,000
Bass Lake 10,000
Big Salmon Lake 30,000
Burnt Lake 10,000
Cedar Lake 30,000
Clear Lake 10,000
Crooked Lake 20,000
Devil Lake 10,000
Dickie Lake 20,000
Eagle Lake 25,000
Gunter Lake 10,000
Jamieson Lake 10,000
Lake St. Peter 30,000
La Valley Lake 10,000
Limestone Lake 5,000
Little Salmon Lake 10,000
Little Salmon River 5,000
Long Lake 5,000
O'Grady Lake 10,000
Papineau Lake 20,000
Peets Lake 10,000
Robinson Lake 15,000
Trout Lake (Faraday) 10,000
Trout Lake (Lake) 25,000
Wadsworth Lake 10,000
Weslemkoon Lake 30,000
Lanark:
Big Rideau Lake 100,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Leeds:
Charleston Lake 50,000
Indian Lake 30,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Red Horse Lake 10,000
Lennox-Addington :
Elbow Lake 15,000
Finch Lake 20,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
FRY
Lennox- Addlngton — Continued
Little Cedar Lake 10,000
Little Weslomkoon Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 50,000
Otter Lake 30,000
Simpson Lake 5,000
Spoon Lake 10,000
Thirty Island Lake 20,000
White Lake 20,000
Peterborough:
Big Cedar Lake 10,000
Bottle Lake 10,000
Eagle Lake 30,000
Eel's Lake 30,000
Jack's Lake 30,000
Lake Catchacoma 20,000
Little Cedar Lake 10,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 90,000
Mississauga Lake 20,000
Oak Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 30,000
Twin Lake 15,000
Rainy River:
Ash Bay 24,900
Bad Vermilion Lake 80,000
Burnt Lake 20,000
Kakagi Lake 135,000
Lake Kishkutena 45,000
Narrow Lake 20,000
Pipestone Lake 20,000
Steeprock Lake 60,000
Great Lakes:
North Channel 140,000
Georgian Bay 1,750,000
Lake Huron 2,480,000
Lake Ontario 567,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma :
Achigan Lake 10,000
Axe Lake 15,000
Bass Lake 10,000
Basswood Lake 15,000
Caribou Lake 7,000
Chiblow Lake 5,000
Chub Lake 20,000
Cummings Lake 15,000
Denman Lake 7,000
Fleck Lake 7,000
Garden Lake 10,000
Grev Trout Lake 6,000
Hawk Lake 10,000
Hobon Lake 10,000
Howard Lake S,000
Island Lake " 5,000
Jobammeghia Lake 15,000
Lake Lauzon 6,000
Lake of the Mountains 4,000
Long Lake 15,000
Madawonsing Lake 5,000
Matinenda Lake 5,000
Mountain Lake 6,000
Patton Lake 10,000
Penage Lake 15,000
Pickerel Lake 5,000
Rand Lake 10,000
Ranger Lake 10,000
Raw Hide Lake 6,000
Red Deer Lake 6.000
Robertson Lake 15,000
Rose Marie Lake 6,000
Sand Lake . . . ; 10,000
Spruce Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 10,000
Wakomata Lake 15,000
Windermere Lake 7,000
Bruce:
Gillies Lake 25,000
Cochrane:
Remi Lake 6,000
Haliburton:
Bear Lake 5,000
Big Bear Lake 3,000
Big Bob Lake 5,000
Boskung Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 4,000
Clearwater Lake 5.000
Davis Lake 9,000
Drag Lake 15,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
East Lake 5,000
Fishtail Lake 4,000
Gull Lake 10,000
Gun Lake 5,000
Hollow Lake 5,000
Horseshoe Lake 3,000
Hurricane Lake 5,000
Kashagawigamog 10,000
Kennisis Lake 10,000
Kimball Lake 5,000
Kushog Lake 10,000
• Little Hawke Lake 5,000
Maple Lake 5.000
Moose Lake 5,000
Mountain Lake 5,000
Oblong Lake 5,000
Oxtongue Lake 5,000
Paudash Lake 3,000
Pine Lake 3,000
Redstone Lake 10,000
South Lake 5,000
Spruce Lake 5,000
Stormy Lake ; 3,000
St. Nora's Lake 5,000
Trout Lake 8,000
Twelve Mile Lake 10,000
White Trout Lake 5,000
Wolfe Lake 3,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
37
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continned
Kenora :
Blue Lake 12,500
Cliff Lake 25,000
Cobble Lake 50,000
Cul-de-Sac Lake 105,000
Dogtooth Lake 50,000
Eagle Lake 14,700
Gee Jay Lake 25,000
Rosamond Lake 20,000
Sturgeon Lake 50,000
Thunder Lake 20,000
Trout Lake 25,000
Whitefish Bay 75,000
Manitoulin :
Lake Manitou 20,000
Muskoka :
Bala Bay 15,000
Bella Lake 10,000
Big Twin Lake 2,500
Bruce's Lake 5,000
Clear Lake (McLean) 10,000
Clear Lake (Ridout) 10,000
Fairy Lake 15,000
Haley's Lake 10,000
Lake of Bays 50,000
Lake Joseph 10,000
Little Clear Lake 2,500
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Mary Lake 30,000
Muskoka Lake 40,000
Near Cut Lake 5,000
Paint Lake 7,500
Peninsula Lake 15,000
Pine Lake 15,000
Rebecca Lake 12,500
Rosseau Lake 10,000
Six Mile Lake 5,000
Skeleton Lake 40,000
Solitaire Lake 5,000
Tasso Lake 5,000
Vernon Lake 20,000
Nlpissing:
Aylen Lake 3,000
Bear Lake 6,000
Cache Lake 3,000
Cameron Lake 8,000
Cedar Lake 10,000
Diamond Lake 3,000
Dotty Lake 5,000
Fatty Lake 5,000
Gull Lake 3,000
Little Martin Lake 6,000
Martin Lake 6,000
Moore's Lake 3,000
Smoke Lake 3,000
Source Lake 3,000
South Tea Lake 3,000
Talon Lake 8,000
Timagami Lake 3,000
Tomiko Lake
Trout Lake
Wasaksina Lake
Wickstead Lake
Parry Sound:
Bay Lake
Black Lake
Caribou Lake
Clear Lake
Eagle Lake
High Lake
Horn Lake
Lake Joseph
Lake Rosseau
Little Lake Joseph
Little Whitefish Lake . . .
Loon Bay
Loon Lake
Lorimer Lake
Memesagamesi Lake . . .
Otter Lake
Portage Lake
Round Lake
Ruth Lake
Salmon Lake
Sand Lake
Sucker Lake
Tea Lake
Three Legged Lake ....
Three Mile Lake
Trout Lake (Hagerman)
Trout Lake (McDougall)
Whitefish Lake
Peterborough:
Crystal Lake
Lake Talon
Renfrew:
Bark Lake
Barry's Bay
Birchim Lake
Blackfish Bay
Centers Lake
Clear Lake
Cross Lake
Diamond Lake
Kaminiskeg Lake
Long Lake (Radcliffe) .
Long Lake (Wylie)
Pog Lake
Round Lake (Lyell)
Round Lake (Richards)
Tea Lake
Trout Lake
Upper Carson Lake ....
Wadsworth Lake
Simcoe:
Kempenfeldt Bay
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake
Clearwater Lake
8,000
12,000
3,000
6,000
10,000
2,500
5,000
10,000
15,000
7,500
15,000
5,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
20,000
5,000
15,000
20,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
15,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
10.000
8,000
3,000
8,000
8,000
5,000
8,000
6,000
15,000
8,000
4,000
7,000
7,000
6,000
8,000
7,000
14,000
6,000
10,000
10,000
7,000
30,000
10,000
10.000
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Sudbury — Continued
Emerald Lake 14,000
Fairbanks Lake 8,000
Kuba Lake 8,000
Lang Lake 7,000
Little Penage Lake 8,000
Long Lake (Broder) 10,000
Long Lake (Harrow) 5,000
Mesomikenda Lake 8,000
Millard Lake 12,000
Miller Lake 5,000
Ministic Lake 7,000
Nepahwin Lake 10,000
Onaping Lake 14,000
Ramsay Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 10,000
Wanapitei Lake 15,000
West Bay 7,000
Windy Lake 14,000
Thunder Bay:
Windigoostigwan Lake 40,000
Timiskaming :
Anima Nipissing Lake 8,000
Crystal- Lake 6,000
Gowganda Lake 3,000
Herridge Lake 5,000
Justine Lake 3,000
Larder Lake 6,000
Long Lake 5,000
Nellie Lake 6,000
Net Lake 3,000
Perry Lake 9,000
Pike Lake 3,00,0
Pine Lake 3,000
Rib Lake 3,000
Trout Lake 3,000
Twin Lake 3,000
Watabeag Lake 10,000
Wendigo Lake 3,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 30,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 2,460,000
North Channel 74,000
Georgian Bay 1,769,000
Lake Huron 3,293,200
Mississagi River 10,000
Montreal River 10,000
North Lake 5,000
West Lake 5,000
White River 10,000
Sudbury:
Onaping River 15,000
Timiskaming:
Choppin Lake 5,000
Miscellaneous:
Sale 50
YEARLINGS and ADULTS
Bruce:
Saugeen River 1,800
Dufferin:
Nottawasaga River 6,085
Pine River 1,500
Elgin:
St. Thomas Reservoir 850
Grey:
Sydenham River 500
Norfolk :
Big Creek 350
Simcoe:
Kempenfeldt Bay 1.500
Lake Simcoe 1,500
Sturgeon River 5,000
Wellington:
Saugeen River 1,500
York:
number River 1,500
Miscellaneous:
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes 2,069
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERINGS
Algoma:
Batchawana River 7,585
Chippewa River 7,000
Hamburg Creek 5,000
Huston Lake 5,000
Jobammeghia Lake 10,000
Keegos Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 10,000
KAMLOOPS TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Blue Lake 19,000
Devils Lake ; 18,000
Lake Constance 20,000
Trout Lake 20,000
Muskoka:
Echo Lake 10,000
ANNUAL REPORT. 1939-40
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SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
KA3IL00PS TROUT— Continued
Nipissing:
Lake Timagami 8,000
Parry Sound:
Lake Bernard 10,000
Miscellaneous:
Demonstration purposes .... 41
SPECKLED TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Durham :
Squirrel Creek 4,000
Taylor's Creek 4,000
Frontenac:
Black Creek 10,000
Bolton Creek 15,000
McCausland Creek 10,000
Sharbot Lake Creek 15,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 28,000
Bartlett Creek 5,000
Bentley Creek 5,000
Diamond Lake 8,000
T. Lake 5,000
Lennox-Addington :
Mill Stream 10,000
Simpson Lake 10,000
Spoon Lake 10,000
Spring Lake 5,000
White Lake 15,000
Nipissing:
Duschene Creek 15,000
Four Mile Creek 25,000
Rainey Lake 8,000
Spring Lake 25,000
Twenty Minute Lake 25,000
Wolf Lake 25,000
Northumberland :
Burnley Creek 10,000
Chidley Creek 3,000
Dartford Creek 3,000
DeLong's Creek 3,000
Duncan Creek 4,000
Pegman's Creek 3,000
Quinn's Creek 3,000
Robin's Creek 3,000
Sandy Flat Creek 4,000
Valleau's Creek 10,000
Peterborough:
Carver's Creek 8,000
Miscellaneous:
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes 1,000
YEARLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Creek 2,500
Achigan Lake 3,200
Agawa River _ 9,600
Alona Bay Creek 1,500
Alva Lake 1,600
Anjigami Creek 1,600
Arnett Lake 1,600
Aubinadong Bay 2,400
Aubinadong Lake 2,400
Austin Lake 1,500
Basswood Lake 2,000
Batchawana River 9,600
Beaver Lake 1,600
Big Lake 2,000
Black Creek 1,000
Boat Lake 1,000
Boundary Lake 2,400
Boyd's Creek 3,200
Buckboard Lake 1,000
Burns Lake 2,500
Burrows Lake 3,200
Caldwell's Lake 800
Cameron Creek 1,000
Camp 8 Bay 2,400
Canoe Lake 500
Carpenter Lake 3,200
Cedar Creek 800
Chippewa River 27,200
Chub Lake 5,200
Clear Lake (Mack) 1,000
Clear Lake (Vankoughnet) . . 3,200
Coffee Creek 2,500
Copp Lake 5,200
Cram Lake 500
Crystal Creek 1,500
Crystal Lake 2,000
Cummings Lake 1,200
Deer Lake 2,500
Diamond Lake 2,000
Driving Creek 5,000
Driving Lake 1,000
Echo Lake 1,500
Eleven Mile Creek 3,200
Elizabeth Lake 1,000
Fairbank Creek 10,000
Fern Lake 1,600
Fish Lake 1,600
Foot Lake 2,500
Garden Lake 4,800
Garden River 1,000
Gilmore Lake 750
Goodwins Lake 1,500
Goulais River 5,250
Gravel Lake 3,500
Harmony Creek 5,100
Harmony River 3,000
Hawk Lake 1,600
Heart Lake 6,700
Herman Lake 3,200
Heyden Lake 5,100
Hidden Portage Lake 2,400
High Lake 1,000
Hills Creek 1,500
Hoath Lake 1,600
40 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Algoma — Continued
Hobon Lake 3,200
Horn Lake 1,600
Horse Lake 1,250
Horseshoe Lake 1,500
Hubert Lake 2,400
Island Lake (Aberdeen) .... 2,500
Island Lake (Aweres) 3,000
Island Lake (176) 5,700
Jackfish River 3,000
Jimmy Lake 800
Jobammeghia Lake 1,600
Kaskawong River 2,400
Kelly Lake 1,000
Kendogami River 3,200
Lake One 1,000
Laughing Lake Bay 2,400
Lessley Lake 1,500
Little High Lake 1,000
Little White River 2,400
Lonely Lake 3,000
Long Lake (Meredith) 1,500
Long Lake (Whitman) 1,000
Loon Lake (Deroche) 2,500
Loon Lake (24-R-13) 4,700
Loonskin Lake 3,200
Lower Island Lake 2,000
Lower Pine Lake 1,600
Lower Twin Lake 1,600
Mader Lake 1,600
Mamainse Harbor 1,000
Mary Ann Lake 1,000
Mashagama Lake 5,400
Merchant Lake 3,000
Mica Bay Creek 750
Mile 58 Lake 1,600
Mill Creek 1,600
Minnow Lake 3,000
Maude Lake 750
Maunshe Megoose Lake .... 1,600
McCauley Lake 1,200
McCormick Lake 1,600
McCrea Lake 2,400
McDonald Stream 1,000
McLeod Creek 1,250
McVeigh Creek 1,600
Michipicoten River 8,000
Mongoose Lake 3,200
Moose Lake (25-R-13) 3,200
Moose Lake (Wells) 1,600
Mountain Lake (lA.) 3,200
Mountain Lake (Gould) 1,600
Mountain Lake (McMahon) . . 1,600
Mud Creek (Vankoughnet) . . 2,500
Mud Lake (lA.) 1,300
Murphy Creek 1,100
Odowbi Lake 800
Ozone Creek 3,000
Pancake River 3,800
Paquette Lake 5,600
Peter Lake 1,500
Pike Lake 1,200
Pine Lake (lA.) 1,600
Pine Lake (25-R-ll) 1,600
Pinkney Lake
Rainbow Lake
Rand Lake
Ranger Lake
Red Deer Lake
Red Rock Lake
Richardson Lake
Robertson Lake
Rock Lake
Root River
Round Lake (lA.)
Round Lake (Grassett)
St. Joseph Island Streams . .
Sand Lake
Sand River
Saymo Bay
Saymo River
Sesabic Lake
Sharp Sand River
Shumka Lake
Silver Creek
Silver Lake
Sister Lake No, 1
Sister Lake No. 2
Snowshoe Creek
Speckled Trout Lake (lA.) . .
Speckled Trout Lake (28-R-16)
Speckled Trout Pond (176) .
Spring Creek
Spruce Lake
Storehouse Creek
Sucker Lake
Summitt Lake
Tamarack Lake
Tawabinasay Lake
Tea Lake
Thessalon River
Triple Lake
Trout Creek
Trout Lake (Aweres)
Trout Lake (Montgomery) . .
Trout Lake (62)
Trout Lake (25-R-14)
Trout Lake Creek
Trout Lake Inlet
Two Tree River
Unnamed Lake (Larkin) . . .
Upper Pine Lake
Upper Twin Lake
Victoria Creek
Vixon Lake
Wallace Lake
Wartz Lake
Wawa Lake
Weashog Lake
White River
Williams Creek
Wonashin Lake
Woods Creek
Brant:
St. George Lake
Bruce:
Barrow Bay Creek
Formosa Creek
Nine Mile Creek
1,600
2,000
1,600
1,000
800
1,000
2,400
4,700
800
6,G00
800
3,200
3,000
3,200
2,400
2,400
2,400
3,500
1,500
2,500
3,000
1,000
800
1,600
2,200
2,400
1,600
1,000
2,000
2.400
2,000
1,600
4,850
800
3,200
1,800
4,200
1,600
1,000
2,000
1,500
3,000
3,800
1,000
2,350
4,400
1,000
1,600
2,000
3,000
3,200
800
2,400
5,200
526
4,400
1,500
1,600
2.400
500
3,300
100
1,600
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
41
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Bruce — Continued.
Silver Stream (Amabel) 3,600
Silver Stream (Carrick) 1,400
Spring Creek 3,600
Vance's Creek 200
Willow Creek 750
Cochrane:
Big Gully Creek 1,000
Elsie Lake 1,000
Grassy River 1,000
Junction Lake 900
Legare Lake 1,200
MacDonald Lake 900
Paradise Creek 1,000
Red Stone River 2,600
Red Sucker River 2,600
Round Lake 1,200
Rushton Lake 1,000
Thunder " Creek 900
Unnamed Lake (Bristol Tp.) 900
Unnamed Lake (Deloro Tp.) 2,700
Unnamed Lake (German Tp.) 800
Unnamed Lake (Macklem Tp.) 2,100
Unnamed Lake (Tisdale Tp.) 1,700
Dufferin:
Cemetery Creek 2,700
Credit River 8,300
McKitrick Stream 1,800
Mulmur Lake 1,400
Nottawasaga River 7,200
Pine River 3,750
Durham :
Ard's Creek 100
Ball's Creek 100
Beatty's Creek 200
Carveth Creek 100
Charlie Awde Stream 100
Cowan Stream 700
Dawson's Creek 500
DeLong Creek 900
Dyer's Creek 1,100
Frew's Creek 200
Goodman's Pond 200
Hall's Stream 200
Harris Creek 300
Laing's Stream 100
Luxton's Creek 1,000
Mercer's Creek 200
Millson Creek 100
Muldrew Creek 200
Powell's Creek 200
Sowden Stream 200
Unnamed Creek 400
Frontenac:
Camp Lake 2,400
Crotch Lake 1,500
Gibson Lake 4,800
Grindstone Lake 4,800
Lucky Lake 2,400
Mackie Lake 2,000
Mallory Creek 4,800
Quackenbush Lake 2,000
Reid's Lake 2,400
Rock Lake 2,400
Round Schooner Lake 1,000
Schooner Lake 1,800
Spring Creek 1,000
Grey:
Bass Lake 3,000
Beatty Saugeen River 4,300
Beaver River 4,600
Bells Creek 600
Big Head River 3,600
Black's Beach 3,600
Black Creek 1,000
Boyds Lake 5,400
Boyne River 4,100
Caseman's Creek 200
Christie Lake 2,550
Cotter's Creek 300
Craigs Creek 300
Cullen Lake 100
Deer Creek 1,800
Ewart Lake 6,600
Ferguson Creek 950
Firths Creek 1,800
Glen Creek 1,800
Hayward Falls 1,200
Hydro Pond 7,200
Lamont's Creek 100
Lawrence Creek 950
Manx Creek 1,800
Mary Lake 200
McCaslin Creek 200
McConnell Creek 1,000
McGowans Dam 1,800
Mcintosh Lake 1,000
McLean's Creek 200
McMullen's Creek 950
Munshaw Lake 500
Oxenden Creek 3,300
Paddy's Creek 3,600
Rocky Saugeen 4,800
Saugeen River 18,850
Spey River 2,500
Spring Creek 650
Stream at Markdale 1,000
Styx River 650
Sydenham River 11,800
Tannery Creek 650
Walker Creek 300
Williams Lake 3,000
Youngs Lake 1,500
Haliburton:
Bear Creek 500
Bitter Lake 1,200
Clear Lake 2,400
Cranberry Lake 1,000
Davis Lake 400
Fletcher Lake 1,000
Gull River 1,000
Gun Lake 4,800
42 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Haliburton — Continued.
Harvey Lake 350
Hawke River 500
Hollow Lake 4,800
McCue Creek 1,500
Oxtongue Lake 1,500
Partridge Lake 500
Pen Lake 1,500
Raven Lake 2,750
Round Lake 350
Scotch Line Creek 500
Stormy Creek 500
Sunken Lake 500
Welcome Lake 1,500
Hastings:
Alexander Creek 1,500
Banker Lake 3,600
Bob Whyte Lake 800
Brett Lake 2,400
Buck Lake 2,400
Cannon's Lake 1,200
Canoe Lake 2,400
Cockburn Lake 2,400
Deer River 9,600
Devil Lake 2,400
Diamond Lake 4,800
Echo Lake 3,000
Egan Creek 14,400
Faulkner's Creek 1,500
Fraser Creek 4,800
Eraser Lake 2,400
Geens Creek 2,400
Green Lake (Bangor) 3,000
Green Lake (Cashel) 2,400
Hineses Lake 1,600
Jardison Lake 1,200
Little Lighthouse Lake 1,200
Little Mississippi Lake 4,800
Long Lake (Herschel) 1,200
Long Lake (Mayo) 2,000
MacKenzie Lake 2,400
Mill Creek 4,200
Mud Lake 1,200
Mud Turtle Lake 2,400
Oak Lake 3,000
Papineau Creek 4,800
Potter Lake 2,400
Rawdon Creek 7,200
Shire Creek 4,800
Smiths Lake 5,400
Squires Creek 9,600
Stoney Lake 2,400
Thirty Island Creek 2,400
Huron:
Belgrave Creek 300
Foster Creek 500
Glaziers Creek 300
Maitland River 2,400
St. Helen's Creek 500
Spring Creek 300
Kenora: -
Elbow Lake
Little Vermilion Lake and
Streams
Silver Lake
Lanark:
Craigs Creek
Paul's Creek
Long Sue Creek
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Creek
Brown's Lake
Burns Lake
Conner's Lake
Copeland Lake
Dafoe Lake
Douglas Lake
East Lake
Green Lake
Kilborn Lake
Long Lake
Loon Lake
Rattan Lake
Rock Lake
Shiner Creek
Snake Creek
White Lake
Lincoln:
St. Davids Spring Creek . .
2,500
7,800
2,500
1,500
3,600
1,200
4,800
3,200
3,200
2,400
2,400
2,400
1,600
1,600
4,800
1,000
2,400
1,000
4,800
2,400
2,400
4,800
9,600
2,000
Manitoulin:
Badger Creek 3,500
Barr's Creek 6,600
Bluejay Creek 30.000
Bonnie Doone Creek 1,600
Hare's Creek 2,600
Manitou River 25,000
Mindemoya River 30,000
Nortons Creek 2,000
Silver Creek 1,600
Srigley Creek 5,200
Spring Creek 6,000
Middlesex:
Fanshaw Creek 2,150
Wye Creek 3,000
Muskoka:
Atkinson Lake 800
Axles Lake 2,400
Beaver Creek 6,000
Bella Lake 6,000
Bells Lake 2,000
Big East River 24,000
Big Turtle Lake 1,600
Big Wind Lake 1,600
Bird Lake 1,600
Black Creek 6,000
Black River 3,200
Bradford Creek 1,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
43
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Muskoka — Continued
Buck Lake 3,200
Clear Lake (McLean) 1,600
Clear Lake (Oakley) 3,000
Clear Lake (Ridout) 5,000
Clear Lake (Sinclair) 3,000
Coopers Lake 4,000
Deep Lake 3,200
Dog Lake 3,000
East River 3,000
Eastall Lake 2,000
Echo Lake 11,000
Fairy Lake Creeks 6,000
Fox Lake 6,000
Eraser Lake 1,000
Gibbs Lake 4,000
Goose Lake 6,000
Grants Lake 3,200
Grindstone Lake 1,600
Gull Lake 3,200
Hecks Lake 4,000
Helve Lake 2,000
High Lake 2,000
Jessops Creek 3,000
Lake of Bays 19,200
Limpers Lake 1,600
Little East River 12,000
Little Turtle Lake 1,600
Little Vernon Lake 1,000
Long Lake 3,200
Loon Lake 1,000
Loon Lake Creek 2,000
Mary Lake 6,000
Muskoka River 49,200
Peninsula Lake 12,000
Rebecca Lake 6,000
Red Chalk Lake 5,000
Round Lake 6,000
Shoe Lake 1,500
Skeleton River 5,500
Solitaire Lake 6,000
Sparks Lake 1,000
Split Rock Lake 2,000
Trout Lake 600
Upper Shewfelt Lake 800
Vernon Lake Creek 6,000
Waseosa Lake 6,000
White Lake 3,200
Wolf Lake 1,500
Nipissing:
Acanthus Lake 250
Antoine Creek 3,400
Bakers Creek 1,500
Balsam Creek 3,400
Bastien Creek 1,500
Billy Lake 1,000
Billy Neil Creek 1,500
Blue Lake 250
Burnt Creek 2,000
Burnt Island Lake 3,000
Burrett's Creek 3,000
Cache Lake 2,500
Callahan Lake 1,500
Canisbay Lake 1,000
Canoe Lake 2,500
Cauchon Lake 250
Cedar Lake 250
Chippewa Creek 3,400
Clark Lake 500
Clear Lake (Chambers) 800
Clear Lake (Field) 3,000
Clear Lake (Lyell) 500
Clear Lake (Notman) 1,000
Cold Stream 500
Coon Lake 1,000
Crane Lake 1,000
Crooked Lake 200
Cutler Lake 1,600
Devils Lake 800
Dorans Creek 4,000
Emerald Lake 2,500
Finlayson Lake 1,500
Found Lake 1,000
Four Mile Creek 8,000
Gauthier Lake 250
Gauthier Pond 750
Gilmour Lake 250
Gorman Creek 1,500
Grand Lake 250
Green Lake 500
Guppy Lake 800
Henderson Lake 1,500
Heron Lake 500
Hot Lake 1,000
Jocko River 12,800
Jubilee Lake 1,000
Kioshqua Lake 250
Lake St. Andrew 250
Lake of Two Rivers 2,000
Little Island Lake 1,000
Little Jocko River 6,400
Loon Lake 800
Lost Lake 1,000
McDonald Lake 1,500
McGee Creek 1,500
Mew Lake 500
Moores Lake 2,000
North River 13,350
Opeongo River 250
Opinicon Creek 2,800
Park Lake 1,000
Radiant Lake 250
Red Rock Lake 250
Robitaille Lake 500
Rock Lake 500
Smoke Lake 2,000
Smoky Creek 3,750
Source Lake 1,500
South Tea Lake 1,000
Spawning Lake 800
Speckled Trout Lake 500
Spring Lake (McLaren) 3,400
Spring Lake (Sisk) 1,500
Stony Creek (Lyman) 1,000
Stony Creek (Notman) 500
Sturgeon Lake 3,400
Tanamakoon Lake 2,000
Timagami Lake 2,800
44 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Nipissing — Continued.
Trout Lake 800
Trout Lake (Parkman) 1,000
Twenty Minute Lake 1,600
Webb Lake 1,800
Whitefish Lake 3,000
White Partridge Lake 250
Whitney Lake 2,600
Wolf Lake 8,000
Norfolk:
Almond Creek 500
Bassels Creek 500
Big Creek 1,540
Campbell Creek 500
Eckardt Creek 500
Howey Creek 500
Kent Creek 2,000
Nanticoke Creek 3,000
Patterson Creek 1,000
Ryerse Creek 1,000
Synden Creek 500
Venison Creek 3,000
Wolfe Creek 500
Northumberland :
Baltimore Creek 2,800
Big Creek 4,000
Burnley Creek 4,800
Chidleys Creek 100
Dartford Creek 2,400
Dawson Creek 1,500
DeLong's Creek 1,600
Duncan's Creek 800
Little Cole Creek 4,000
Little Lake 3,600
Mill Creek 200
O'Grady's Creek 2,700
Pegman's Creek 1,600
Quinn's Creek 800
Robins Creek 200
Sandy Flat Creek 1,600
Valleau's Creek 800
Ontario:
Beaver River 2,400
Cameron Creek 1,000
Elgin Park Pond 1,000
Parry Sound:
Bar Lake Creek 500
Barrett's Creek 1,200
Barton Creek 1,500
Beaver Lake 1,200
Big Clam Lake 800
Big Mink Lake 3,200
Black Creek (Gurd) 1,500
Black Creek (Strong) 2,200
Bradford Creek 600
Buck Lake 500
Burley's Creek 500
Cheer Lake 500
Clear Lake (Armour) 1,000
Clear Lake (Laurier) 2,500
Clear Lake
(South Himsworth) 500
Clear Lake (Wilson) 700
Commanda Lake 1,600
Crooked Lake 4,200
Cummings Lake 600
Deer Creek 700
Deer Lake 700
Deer River 1,700
Distress River 2,800
Dunkers Creek 1,000
Eagle Lake 1,000
Fagans Creek 600
Fleming Lake 1,300
Franks Lake 1,000
Genesee Creek 1,200
Gorge Lake 750
Gull Lake 500
Haggerty Creek 500
Hog Lake 800
Horn Lake 1,800
Hughes Lake 2,250
Hungry Lake Creek 750
Island Lake 600
Jacks Lake Creek 400
James Creek 900
Jordons Creek 600
Lemmons Creek 100
Little Mink Lake 2,250
Lynx Lake 800
Madill Creek 500
Magnetawan River 11,500
McCullough Creek 2,400
Otter Lake 1,300
Owl Lake 600
Paisley Creek 1,300
Pool Lake 900
Proudfoot Creek 500
Ragged Creek 900
Rainy Lake 3,000
Rat Lake 1,700
Round Lake 1,750
Roussel's Creek 500
Sand Lake 3,400
Smiths Creek 1.300
South River 2,400
Spring Creek (Chapman) . . . 1,500
Spring Creek (Lount) 6,500
Steels Creek 1,500
Stellars Creek 600
Stoney Lake 2,800
Stream in Ryerson Township 1,700
Surprise Creek 750
Tea Lake 1,000
Three Mile Creek 1,400
Trout Creek (Himsworth) . . 3,400
Trout Creek (Laurier) 2,700
Peel:
Credit River 5,200
Humber River 2,100
Peterborough:
Big Ouse River 4,800
Carvers Creek 1,500
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
45
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Peterborough — Continued
Cavan Stream 6,800
Eel's Creek 3,200
Little Ouse River 4,800
Mount Pleasant Stream 3,200
Otter Creek 2,600
Plateau Creek 2,600
Sophies Lake 1,600
Union Creek 4,800
Renfrew :
Barbout Creek 2,000
Battery Creek 500
Bear Lake 1,500
Biggs Creek 2,000
Big Round Lake 2,000
Bissett Creek 3,250
Blueberry Lake 2,000
Brennan's Creek 1,500
Byers Creek 2,500
Caldwell Creek 1,000
Centers Lake 4,000
Clarkes Creek 1,500
Cochrane Creek 1,500
Crooked Lake Creek 1,000
Cross Lake 1,500
Crozier Creek 2,500
Deux Riviere Creek 2,500
Devils Lake 1,000
Diamond Lake Creek 1,500
Dodge Lake 2,000
Dominick Lake 1,500
Finley Creek 1,500
Gardez Pieds Creek 4,500
Godin Creek 250
Grant Creek 3,250
Green Lake Creek 1,500
Gultz Creek 1,500
Hammel Lake 200
Hart Lake 1,500
Harvey Creek 3,000
Heney Creek 2,000
Horton Creek 500
Hughey Creek 1,000
Indian River 3,000
Johnson Lake 500
Josie Creek 1,500
Kelly Lake Creek 3,500
Koehls Creek 1,500
Lake in the Hills 1,000
Locksley Lake Creek 2,500
Lost Lake 1,500
MacKay Creek 4,500
Marrow Lake 3,000
McDermott's Creek 1,250
Meilleur Lake 1,000
Miller's Lake 1,500
Nadeau Creek 1,500
Paugh Lake 3,000
Pumaile Lake ^ . . . 1,500
Quadville Creek 1,500
Rattery Lake 1,500
Reserve Creek 1,000
Rockingham Creek
Round Lake
Siroski's Creek
Smith Creek
Spring Creek
Stewart Creek
Toohey Lake
Trout Lake
Tucker Creek
Turner Creek
Unnamed Creek, Brougham
Wylie Creek
Simcoe:
Black Creek
Boyne River
Colwell's Creek
Hill's Creek
Matheson Creek
1,500
4,000
3,000
2,500
1,500
3,000
3,000
1,500
3,000
4,500
1,000
3,000
1,500
1,000
1,500
1,500
1.500
Sudbury:
Anderson Lake 5,000
Awry Creek 6,000
Barley Creek 15,000
Bertrand Creek 5,000
Bull Lake 19,000
Cameron Creek 2,000
Coniston Creek 5,000
Crystal Lake 3,000
Ella Lake 10,000
Emery Creek 5,000
Farm Lake 3,000
Fournier Creek 20,000
Geneva Creek 15,000
Green Lake 10,000
Johns Creek 30,000
Junction Creek 5,000
Karl Creek 2,000
Long Lake (Harrow) 1,000
Long Lake (Strathearn) .... 1,500
M'CLanders Creek 7,000
McLeod Creek 3,000
Michauds Creek 10,000
Moose Creek 4,000
Post Creek 4,000
Poulin Creek 10,000
Pumphouse Creek 30,000
Rapid River 9,000
Rock Lake 2,500
Round Lake 5,000
Sandcherry Creek 10,000
Sauble River 50,000
Second Lake 3,500
Shenango Creek 1,450
Shoal Lake Creek 1,000
Trout Creek 3,000
Trout Lake 2,500
Trout Lake (5-6) 4,000
Twin Lake 1,500
Veuve River 20,000
Waddell Creek 9,000
Wavy Creek 10,000
Windy Creek 20,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940~Continued
SPECKLED TKOUT— Continued
Thunder Bay:
Anderson Creek 2,400
Arnold Creek 1,000
Arrow River 3,000
Bass Creek 3,000
Bat Lake 2,000
Beardmore Creek 3,000
Bear Trap Lake 3,000
Beaver Lake 3,000
Big Duck Lake 4,000
Big McKenzie River 12,000
Big Partridge Lake 3,000
Billy Creek 1,500
Bishop Lake 2,000
Blind River 7,500
Bluff Lake • 2,000
Boulevard Lake 3^000
Brule Creek 7^000
Canadian National Rly. Lake
Mile 51 1,500
Cavern Creek 4,000
Cedar Creek 15,000
Clearwater Creek 1,500
Clearwater Lake 500
Coldwater River 14,000
Corbett Creek 5,000
Cousineau Lake 2,000
Current River 12,000
Dan's Lake 2,400
Deception Lake 2*000
Deep Lake 1^000
Devils Lake 2,000
Dublin Creek 4^000
Duck Lake 2^000
Fall Lake 2^000
Fire Lake 'goO
Fire Hill Lake 1,000
Fischer Lake 4*000
Fraser Creek 6^000
Golden Gate Lake 4*000
Good Morning Lake 10^000
Gowganda Creek 2,000
Grand Lake 2*000
Granite Lake 3^000
Grass Lake 1^500
Gravel Lake SJOOO
Gravel River 6000
Green Lake 3|ooo
Gunderson Lake 1,000
Hackle Lake 2^000
Half Moon Lake 2ioOO
Hazelwood Creek 6,000
Hemdick Lake 4,000
Hidden Lake 3,000
Hornblend Lake 2,000
Indian Lake 1,000
Jackpine Lake 3,000
Jackpine River 1,000
Jackson Lake 2,000
Johnson Lake 100
Kaministiquia River 6,000
Lake Ada 2,000
Lake Eva 3,500
La Saga Lake 3,000
Little Lake 2,000
Little Partridge Lake 2,400
Little Whitefish River 3,000
Loftquist Lake 18,500
Log Lake 600
Lonely Island Lake 2,000
Loon Creek 2,000
Loon Lake 27,400
Lost Lake 2,400
Lower Good Morning Lake . . 5,000
Lower Pass Lake 3,000
Lower Twin Lake 2,400
Lower Wiggins Lake 5,000
Mac's Lake 800
MacGregor Lake 1,400
Maggot River 1,000
Mclntyre River 14,000
McLean's Lake 2,500
McVicars Creek 9,000
Mine Lake 3,500
Mirror Lake 3,000
Moonshine Lake 2,750
Moose Creek 3.000
Moose Lake 3,000
Morgan's Creek 2,000
Mountain Lake 500
Mud Lake 308
Neebing River 28,500
Nilson Lake 2,000
Nipigon River 58,400
Nishin Lake 6,000
Oliver Lake ' 12,500
Ozone Creek 2,900
Paradise Lake 2,000
Park Lake 1,500
Parsons Lake 4,000
Pass Lake 12,000
Pearl River 6,000
Pickerel Lake 2,000
Pitch Creek 6,000
Pocket Lake 500
Rainbow Lake 3,000
Rat Lake 1,600
Ring Lake 6,400
Ross Lake 3,000
Round Lake 2,000
Sameco Lake 2,000
Sand Lake 6,400
Selim River 1,000
Silver Islet Lake 3,000
Silver Lake 7,000
Single Lake 3,000
South Sucker Creek 5,000
Sox Lake 2,500
Spring Creek 6,000
Spring Lake (Leduc) 2,000
Spring Lake (McTavish) 400
Squaw Creek 3,000
Star Lake 3,000
Strawberry Creek 6,000
Surprise Lake 1,500
Trout Creek 5,000
Trout Lake (Jacques, etc.) . . 28,000
Trout Lake (Stirling) 24,000
Twin Lakes 3,000
Uncle Tom's Lake 3,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
47
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Thunder Bay — Continued.
Unnamed Lakes and Creeks
Upper Morgan Creek
Upper Pass Lake
Upper Pearl River
Upper Twin Lakes
Walker Lake
Wanoga Lake
Warnford Creek
Whitefish River
Whitewood Creek
Wideman Lake
Wild Goose Creek
Wolf Lake
Wolf Pup Lake
Temiskaming:
Beaver Lake
Belle Lake
Boston Creek
Butler Lake
Calcite Creek
Charlotte Lake
Collacutt Lake
Crooked Creek
Crystal Lake
Dandurand Creek
Gleason Creek
Graham Lake
Green Lake
Halfway Creek
Hooker Creek
Jean Baptiste Lake
Lake of Bays
Latour Creek
Leacock Creek
Legare Creek
Linnament Lake
Little Otter
Loon Lake ,
Moffat Creek
Munro Lake
Nellie Lake
Pike Creek
Rowley Lake
St. Anthony Creek
Small Spot Creek
South Wabi Creek
Spring Creek ,
Sunshine Lake
Wabi Creek
Watabeag River
Wendigo Creek
Whiskey Jack Creek
Victoria:
Corbin's Creek ,
Crego's Creek ,
Waterloo:
Elora Creek ,
Erbsville Creek
Mannheim Creek
2,500
2,000
3,000
6,000
3,000
6,000
1,500
3,000
6,000
6,500
6,000
1,500
3,000
3,000
800
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,500
1,500
1,000
1,000
5,000
1,200
1,000
1,000
1,200
800
800
1,000
1,300
1,000
1,000
1,000
800
1,500
1,500
1,500
800
1,200
1,500
1,300
1,000
800
1,000
1,500
1,500
1,000
800
1,000
1.800.
300
300
2,000
1,200
1.200
Wellington:
Bell's Creek 3,600
Dwyer Creek 300
Mallot's Creek 500
Mill Creek 600
Ospring Creek 600
Saugeen River 7,200
York:
Doan's Pond 150
Miscellaneous:
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes 9,035
ADULTS
Algoma:
Island Lake 1,100
Lake Elizabeth 150
Lake Maude 150
Thunder Bay:
Cedar Creek 200
Coldwater River 985
Half Moon Lake 200
Loftquist Lake 800
Loon Lake 400
Moose Creek 200
Nipigon River 240
Spring Creek 250
Squaw Creek 300
Trout Creek 300
Trout Lake 800
Miscellaneous:
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes 240
HERRING FRY
Frontenac:
Rideau Lake 1,000,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 2,425,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Erie 33,750,000
Lake Ontario 1,375,000
WHITEFISH FRY
Kenora:
Eagle Lake 1,000,000
Lake of the Woods 15,894,000
Red Lake 500,000
Separation Lake 500,000
Trout Lake 600,000
48 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1939, to March 31st, 1940— Continued
WHITEFISH FRY— Continued
Manitoulin:
Manitou Lake 1,250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 61,100,000
Rainy River:
Rainy Lake 19,300,000
Thunder Bay:
Lake Nipigon 1,000,000
York:
Lake Simcoe 1,500,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 6,465,000
North Channel 18,800,000
Georgian Bay 60,520,000
Lake Huron 26,015,000
Lake Erie 83,588,000
Lake Ontario 28,625,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
49
APPENDIX No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES— 1935 TO 1939, INCLUSIVE
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fi-y
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinonge
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch— Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fit
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry
Brown Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults . . . .
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Landlocked Salmon (Ouananiche)
Yearlings
A-tlantic Salmon-
Yearlings .
-Fry
Rainbow Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fi-y
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
Kamloops Trout — Fingerlings
Yearlings
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults . . . .
Whitefish
Eyed
t ry ,
Eggs
Herring
Eyed Eggs
Fiy
Golden Shiners
Miscellaneous
TOTALS
130,000
2.153
27*
696,000
153,065
3,435
460,000
53,031,400
2.000,000
229,629,000
109,000
9,650
6*
7,773,034
14,564,000
13,640
45,000
780,000
69,380
5,202
274,000
,080,000
2,000,000
300,759,500
147,050
7,290
3,209,400
4,165,000
18,253,244
134,075
314
85,464
10,796
1,645,000
5,013,831
35,421
5,420
296,482,000
43,760,000
500
655,747,231**
133,000
3,507
28,600
182,000
1,053,050
557,270
6,081
112,500
428,402,000
56,120,000
862.401,472
135.000
4,120
92
1,275,000
141,900
5,893
420,700
9,150,000
2,000,000
263,743,400
1,000,000
97,484
3,225.000
4,667,000
15,782,350
7,200
105,240
80,000
384,725
1,167,073
16,150
4,000,000
383,683,900
30,000
5,270.000
3,053
696,395,280
57,500
8,061
804,000
169,800
7,738
2,005,000
59,150,000
2,012,500
271,567,500
500,000
59,592
2,437,000
7,665,000
10,575,200
4,800
321,600
6,727
25.821
1,000
373,314
2,083,538
4,452
323,700,500
49,725,000
733,265,643
1.890
497
1,386,000
226,325
7,739
120,000
2,675,000
1,300
72,360,000
7,000,000
327.500,000
29,954
375,070
1,845,850
7.236,900
9,964,400
109,635
23,145
1,009
105,000
337,000
2,976,559
6,315
326,657,000
J, 550, 000
41
799,496,629
Exhibition fish
This total does not include a distribution of 132,
immediately preceding the said report.
3,600 fry and eyed eggs during the five months
50
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
No. Tons
Value
Gasoline
Launches
No.
Value
Sail and
Row Boats
No.
Value
Gill Neta
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior ,
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Tota-ls
825
! I
3
10
432
389
132
943
612
328
15
328
118
490
454
$ 10,200
63.000
45,200
110,624
122,556
786
276,400
143
122
55
130
122
55
188
219
14
67,245
45,075
32,680
109,740
79,110
13,460
221,375
120,375
2,770
272
43
45
134
32
75
125
129
107
$13,802
2,825
2.780
5,955
1,975
3,875
6,530
4,682
3,828
I
539,2951
891,1281
631.6681
1,329.3951
1.589.8621
$ 65,160
99.067
74.811
137.282
166,881
2,100,6631
1.406.0041
249.146
126,590
4.2061 92
I
2, 1911 $627,980
1
I i
1048 I $691,8801
I I
962
46,2521 8,488,0151 918,937
I I
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
897
1.398,408
5.133
54.007
263.127
1,649.657
339.609
157.238
1,118.017
115.061
650
2.312.167
664.595
9.979
258,818
1.307.365
504.365
1.448,917
1.250,115
744.792
8.985
64.028
25,565
616
32,587
97,217
87,794
1,685
125,066
11.983
1,294.169
93 962
33 '^6''
608
4.844
4.075
5,910,769
100.538
1,566
103,538
213,410
54.935
1.973.355
1,626,994
305
25
268.835
37,362
586.100
10.259
4,587
TnfjilH
5,322,226
6,366,973
5,075,802
1,068,269
6.157,383
2,389,635
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
Values
$266,111.80
$700,367.03
$558,338.22
$68,796.14
$807,869.15
$262,859.85
ANNUAL REPORT, 1939-40
51
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
Province of Ontario, for the Year Ending December 31st, 1939.
MENT
Seine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
Night Lines
Spears
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
\
Yards
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Hooks
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
I 1
1
46 $ 14,035
50 16,550
56 23.100
79 84.050
1311 78.250
124| 13.100
6391 311.700
56
$1,985
3,400
18
$360
1 1
119 $27,480| 9.^
$10,322
9,060
12,400
31,731
6,520
3,725
36,035
7,010
285
$210,589
50
42 14,085
411 12.500
38
29
63
29
12
93
32
6
249,712
203,471
4 EOO
$585
55
755
16.562
in AOA
4.134
2,855
214
. .
65
68
18
104
34
18,765
26,300
5,700
107,025
7,515
1,514
503,621
1
2
6
24
35
$ 6
484,452
30
6,700
13,900
620
4,295
3,943
7,410
654
12,312
102| 3.300
44,119
39
10
419
220
1.000
10.680
5.517
301 2.5001 52
1371 2.400| 1.020
17f;l fiool 210
1,216,073
12
.
278,663
52
lOfi
875
27,486
1
III!
137
26.015
24,904
1
1.121|$540.185
1
$
760 19.937
68
$4491 39,184 $8,895| 105| $875
1 1 1
1
513|$220,884 395
1
$117,088 $3,218,816
1
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Garp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
1
166,940
3,173
1 4,231
1 1,225
1 2.951
1 8.834
1 18.169
7,973
1
1
23,924
185
10,062
5,982
291,552
39,349
1,407,232
153,048
4.041
198,258
36,629
3,983
1
1,048| 34,435
1
1
383 8181 1 79Q
4,883,551
3,307,237
959.683
2 988 821
$498,193.32
269,245.94
88,348.1$
.11 n 199 !m
106,938
176 673
1
fill fift?
A^
98,4831 8,7671 47,664
210,512 K SQ.^l n ncf?
76,005] 43
132,3261 243
331,3231 344
1.535,4221 903
230 4291 «ft
2,495,9521 220,493.01
784 2991 '11 K14 ««
61,5311 250,671
110.3571 312,295
87,4581 251.295
102 066| 242.019
14.264,011
3.512,040
654,695
867,889.51
234,437.83
22.742
1,566 4,587
9.c;l CiHF,
1
34,272.18
1
1 1
1
i 1
1 215,062 27,329
1 1 1
1,935,3751 547 865| 379 6811 i ^^'> '«'*
3.224,019 3,387
33,850.289
1 i
1
.401 .07
.05
1
.061 .08
.05
1
.031 1.00
1
!
1
1
1 $86,024,801 $1,913.03
1 1
1 1
$96,768.75 $32,871.90| $30,374.48
1
1 ! 1
57.114.151 96,720.571 3,387.00
1 1
2,564,516.37
52 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941)
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Kind
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) . .
Pickerel (Dore) .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Course
Caviare
TOTALS 34,913,941 33,850,289
1938
Pounds
4,702
4,947
6,040
1,003
7,317
2,312
157
52
2,977
759
474
1,072
3,091
3
917
679
471
787
124
830
582
606
846
778
058
070
352
841
1939
Pounds
5,322,226
6,366,973
5,075,802
1,063,269
6,157,383
2,389,635
215,062
27,329
1,935,375
547,865
379,681
1,142,283
3,224,019
3,387
Increase
Pounds
619,309
1,419.294
* "5V,482
' '76,8 6 5
57,480
70,213
132,667
Decrease
Pounds
964,669
1,1*5 9,741
25,277
1,042,471
211,913
94,377
454
*1, 063, 652
* Net Decrease
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1939
Kind
Quantity
Pounds
Price per
Pound
Estimated
Value
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) .
Pickerel (Dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Course
Caviare
TOTALS
5,322
6,366
5,075
1,063
6,157
2,389
215
27
1,935
547
379
1,142
3,224
3
,226
,973
,802
,269
,383
,635
,062
,329
,375
,865
,681
,283
,019
,387
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
$266
700
558
63
307
262
86
1
96
32
30
57
96
3
,111.30
,367.03
,338.22
,796.14
,869.15
,859.85
,024.80
,913.03
,768.75
,871.90
,374.48
,114.15
,720.57
,387.00
33,850,289
$2,564,516.37
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF FISH TAKEN FROM THE WATERS
OF THE PROVINCE
1920 — 1939 INCLUSIVE
1920 $2,691,093.74
1921 2,656,775.82
1922 2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926 2,643,686.28
1927 3.229,143.57
1928 3.033,944.42
1929 3,054,282.02
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
12,539
2.442
2.286
2.186
2.316
2.633
2.614
2.644
2.573
2.564
,904.91
,703.55
573.50
083.74
,965.50
512.90
748.49
,163.49
,640.97
,516.37
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1940- 1941
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1942
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 4 2
TO THE HONORABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1941.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
H. C. NIXON,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries
Toronto, 1942.
(ii)
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Game and Fisheries Department of Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE H. C. NIXON,
Minister in charge,
Department oi Game and Fisheries.
SIR:-
I have the honour to submit to you herewith the Thirty-fourth Annual Report
of the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining a summary of the activities of
various Departmental services, and including statistical tables for the fiscal year
ended March 31st, 1941, as well as tables of comparison.
INTRODUCTORY
The Province of Ontario has been endowed with a wealth of natural charm, with
which have been incorporated many opportunities for the enjoyment of outdoor recrea-
tional pleasures. Its extensive water areas, virgin forests and wild lands all combine
to make this Province a tremendous reservoir for the development of wild life. Not-
withstanding the many physical changes that have taken place in past years it has
been possible to maintain this outstanding characteristic in large measure, particularly
in the northern hinterland.
In the development of the Province its vacation and recreational possibilities
have not been neglected and the protection and propagation of fish and game have
been maintained and extended so as to keep pace with material development. The
excellent fishing and hunting which are available within our borders are undoubtedly
important factors in promoting tourist trade, and the economic value of this seasonal
industry is too obvious to require any comment except that it provides a living for
thousands of our citizens, and in the present emergency plays a prominent part in
establishing foreign exchange for the purchase of essential war materials.
This Department co-operated with the Provincial Travel and Publicity Bureau
in providing an interesting and outstanding exhibit at the Sport Shows conducted
in Chicago and Detroit during the months of February and March, 1941, with the object
of endeavouring to attract increased numbers of American tourists to the Province. In
each case considerable interest was displayed in the exhibit and the available literature
was eagerly taken up, A special attraction at this exhibit was the regular showing
of coloured moving pictures, replete with action, and demonstrating that the claim
that Ontario is a sportsman's paradise was no idle boast. The friendly spirit of the
people was very evident and, from the standpoint of improving the agreeable relations
between two good neighbours, apart altogether from the economic value, the exhibit
was quite successful.
The general protective programme has recognized the various phases affecting
supply and demand and made provision to maintain a proper balance. Large areas
of suitable land have been set aside as sanctuaries for game, ensuring reproduction
and perpetuation. Small game has been intensively propagated and released to re-stock
forest and field. Hundreds of millions of fish are artificially raised in the various
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
Departmental hatcheries and annually deposited in provincial waters, and in the
ensuing pages it is indicated to what extent this programme was carried out during
the period under review.
Legislation is effective only to the extent that the provisions thereof have the
complete support of those for whose benefit it is provided, and the success of the
conservation programme instituted by the Department in conjunction with legislation
depends upon the full and active co-operation of all who are interested in our wild
life resources. The general public can and does assist the Department in many ways,
but chiefly by preventing waste and by a careful compliance with the provisions of
the Game and Fisheries Act and the various regulations provided under this and
affiliated legislation.
FINANCIAL
Since the change in the period of the fiscal year inaugurated by the present
Administration in 1935, the total annual revenue collected from various sources by
the Department of Game and Fisheries has, previous to the year under review, shown
an increase each succeeding year, and it is only natural to expect that such a notable
showing would eventually be terminated by a decreased collection in some particular
fiscal year. Such decrease it is necessary to record for the year 1940-41, as is shown
in the subjoined statistical table of revenues and expenditures for the past six years: —
Revenue
Expenditure
(Ordinary & Capital)
Surplus
1935-36
$ 683,938.72
782,217.63
866,558.19
914,475.24
1,015,350.82
984,800.69
$451,041.91
474,128.95
563,938.33
575,437.79
568,198.55
512,834.70
$232,896.81
1936-37
318,088.68
1937-38
302,619.86
1938-39
339,037.45
1939-40
447,152.27
1940-41
471,965.99
It will be observed that as compared with the revenue derived in 1939-40 that
collected during the year covered by this report shows a reduction in the amount of
$30,550.13. This decrease is not of sufficient proportions to cause concern and may
be attributed principally to reduced collections from fur royalties in the neighborhood
of $15,000.00, and a reduction in fees secured from the sale of resident hunting licenses,
slightly in excess of $12,000.00, and from the sale of non-resident angling licenses,
approximately $7,000.00.
The following table of revenue collected shows the various sources from which
it was derived and the respective amounts attributable thereto: —
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st, 1941.
ORDINARY —
MAIN OFFICE-
GAME—
lyicenses —
". ' Trapping , $ 35,795.50
Non-resident hunting 84,265.00
Deer J:.';; .^ 1 . . . . .^=v^ .^i . vVVV. 77,469.40
Moose ,, 2,948'.00
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REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st, 19 41 — Continued
Licenses — Continued
Gun 86,527.85
Dog 5,746.10
Fur Dealers 27,323.00
Fur Farmers 8,637.50
Tanners 160.00
Cold Storage 178.00
$ 329,050.35
Royalty 101,599.18
$ 430,649.53
FISHERIES —
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 85,914.00
Angling 384,675.00
$ 470,589.00
Sales — Spawn taking 226.95
Royalty 12,066.22
■ $ 482,882.17
GENERAL—
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 7,345.00
Guides 7,456.00
$ 14,801.00
Fines 25,416.28
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Game Act)... 786.78
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 2 4,309.12
Rent 3,301.75
Commission retained by Province on sale of lie. 2,170.30
Miscellaneous 48 3.76
$ 71,268.99
Net Ordinary Revenue $ 984,800.69
One fact that is worthy of comment is the large proportion of the total amount
of $984,800.69 which was derived from the sale of non-resident licenses, both angling
and hunting. Some forty-seven and a half per cent of the entire total, or $468,940.00
was collected in this way, and this must be considered to be a remarkable showing
when studied in conjunction with the feeling of uncertainty and dismay which
generally prevailed in the summer of 1940 following the disastrous collapse of the
French armies then engaged as our allies in the tremendous struggle against the Axis
powers. The satisfactory conditions which are prevalent in the wildlife natural
resources of Ontario's forests, streams and lakes, and which are an attraction and
recreational benefit not only to our own sportsmen but also to non-resident
anglers and hunters, are reflected to a remarkable degree in this excellent result.
Reference has already been made to the reduced departmental revenue, as com-
pared with that of the previous year when for the first time since the establishment
of the Department of Game and Fisheries it exceeded the one million dollar total, and
to the fact that the decrease was not one to cause undue concern. In explanation it
will be noted that the figure for 1940-41 was exceeded only once during the past six
years, viz — in the preceding fiscal year, 1939-40, and the collection of revenue in that
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year showed an extremely remarkable increase of more than $100,000.00 over that of
1938-39.
As previously indicated the principal reduction in revenue may be attributed
to the lesser amount of fur royalties which were collected during the year, and the
sale of fewer resident hunting licenses and non-resident angling licenses. To a large
extent reduced fur royalties could be assigned to a smaller catch of beaver, on the
pelts of which animals the royalty is $1.00, collected when they are exported from the
Province or tanned. In 1939-40 two limited periods of open season were provided for
the taking of beaver, and in which two periods 33,530 pelts were taken. This total re-
presented some 12,000 pelts more than were taken in the open season which prevailed
in 1940-41 in which year only one period for the taking of beaver was provided. In
addition to this there was also a considerable reduction in the number of red fox which
were taken in the 1940-41 season as compared with the season of 1939-40. Reduced
revenue from the sale of resident hunting licenses may reasonably be assigned to the
intensification of industry in connection with the manufacture of materials necessary
for the effective conduct of the war in which our nation is now engaged which un-
doubtedly resulted in many who formerly participated in the sport which our hunting
provides finding themselves without sufficient leisure for the pursuit of game to war-
rant their purchase of hunting licenses. The general feeling of uncertaifity regarding
the unfavourable war situation which prevailed throughout the summer of 1940 was no
doubt responsible for the sale of fewer non-resident angling licenses, but the small
total of this decrease warrants the statement that this reduction was due
to the reason just stated rather than to any serious diminution in the quality or quan-
tity of the diversified fishing privileges which are available in the waters of this
Province.
However, the complete financial statement of revenue and expenditure is prob-
ably one of the best ever recorded by the Department. As compared with expenditures,
both ordinary and capital, the revenue showed a surplus of $471,965.99 during the
period under review. This favourable showing was achieved by the exercise of rigid
control of expenditures, and the elimination of all unnecessary expense. Capital
expenditures were reduced to practically an absolute minimum, only a total sum of
$3,823.70 being spent under this classification. The largest capital expenditure
amounted to $1,846.18, for the installation of a concrete whiteflsh and herring battery
at the Provincial Fish Hatchery at Glenora, in Prince Edward County. For the erec-
tion of a cabin at the Martin River Camp, in the Temagami area, for the use of the
local Game and Fisheries enforcement officer, was spent the sum of $541.58. The
balance of $1,435.94 was used to provide necessary alterations and improvements at
a few of the fish hatcheries.
As has now been the case for many years the most important items of ordinary
expenditure have resulted from the maintenance in the field of the officers whose
services are retained to provide enforcement of the various provisions of the Game
and Fisheries Act and Regulations, and the operation of the Fish Hatcheries and dis-
tribution of fish under the Fish Culture Branch. Enforcement cost $210,536.88, while
$184,121.76 was expended in connection with the work of the Fish Culture Branch. Other
items of expenditure include, $13,963.71 for the purchase and distribution of pheasants,
particularly in the Townships which have been designated as Regulated Game Preserve
Areas, and in other areas in which suitable conditions prevail; $16,477.43 for the
payment of wolf bounties and sundry expenditures incidental thereto, and of which
amount the sum of $16,410.00 was actually paid as bounty; as well as $6,400.00 for
various grants, details of which are as follows: — $1,000.00 for fisheries research work,
particularly in the waters of Algonquin Park, under the supervision of Professor
W. J. K. Harkness of the University of Toronto staff, $2,500.00 to the Ontario Fur
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Farmers' Association to assist them in their endeavours to develop the fur farming
industry throughout the Province, $1,000.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers to
enable this organization to continue its campaign to secure better compliance with and,
observance of provisions of the Fisheries Regulations, and $1,900.00 to Messrs. Jack
Miner and Thomas N. Jones and Miss Edith L. Marsh to encourage their efforts along
the lines of providing a measure of protection for birds on sanctuaries maintained by
them on their respective properties in the Counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey.
GAME
The following table shows the comparative details of the various resident and
non-resident hunting licenses which were issued for use during the open seasons which
were provided during the year, together with information of a similar character for
the three preceding years. Details of the reduced numbers which were sold, to which
previous reference has been made will be noted, though some increase will be observed
in the following instances, viz: — resident "moose", non-resident "general" and non-
resident "bear (spring season)".
Resident Deer
Resident Deer (Camp)
Resident Deer (Farmers)
Resident Moose
Resident Gun ,
Non-Resident Deer
Non-Resident "General"
Non-Resident Small Game
Non-Resident Bear (Spring Season)
1937-38
18,672
283
6,503
580
90,756
1,036
1,043
1,634
30
1938-39
21,762
307
7,719
471
114,580
1,329
569
1,618
49
1939-40
21,416
323
7,722
497
113,992
1,492
593
1,567
108
1940-41
20,219
310
6,486
536
97,218
1,291
755
1,377
161
The conservation of wild life is not something peculiar to that particular re-
source. It is common to every phase of our existence. It is the sensible practice of
making the best use of every resource with which we have been so lavishly endowed
by Nature, and by ensuring that these resources will not be wilfully dissipated as a
result of our own shortsightedness. Wild life is a public heritage, and the laws and
regulations which are now in effect to govern hunting within the Province embody
the results of years of practical experience and research. They afford protection dur-
ing the reproductive periods, provide for limited open seasons and restrict the sea-
sonal take to correspond with the available resources. These laws are quite com-
prehensive because the resources, territory and climatic conditions are extremely
varied, yet a moment of reflection will readily supply the reasons for every restriction.
The following is a summary of conditions which apply to the various species of
game animals and birds which are prevalent in Ontario, and which summary is com-
piled from reports submitted by Game and Fisheries Overseers throughout the
Province: —
DEER: — This species is quite plentiful throughout the northern portion of the
Province and in the more northerly districts of Southern Ontario, and in these sections
continues to provide excellent sport for interested hunters during the fall open season.
The protection of an entire close season which has been provided for the past several
years in certain southwestern and eastern counties has resulted in quite a noticeable
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increase in the herds in many of these counties and more particularly in Grey and
Bruce. The regulations which at present exist for the protection of deer and a con-
tinuation of the existing co-operation on the part of the general public will undoubt-
edly ensure perpetuation and possible improvement of the deer herds which now in-
habit Ontario. During the year under review provision was made to have the general
open season in the most southerly division extend for a period of nineteen days, as
has been the case in previous years, but commencing on the first Monday in November.
The hunting of deer was also permitted during the period from November 11th to Nov-
ember 16th, inclusive, in the Townships of Amabel. Albemarle, Eastnor, Lindsay and
St. Edmund in the Bruce Peninsula, though the use of dogs for such hunting during
this open season in these five Townships was not permitted. An open season for deer
was provided in that portion of the County of Carleton lying west of the Rideau River
conforming with the general season in Southern Ontario and extending from November
4th to 19th, inclusive. And, further, a Regulation was provided to prohibit any hunting
of deer during 1940 in the Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward.
MOOSE: — Conditions are such with reference to moose that the hunting of this species
is confined to that portion of the Province lying north and west of the French and
Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Moose is not too plentiful in any section of this
northern portion of the Province, though some improvement is reported from various
Districts, particularly in the two areas in the northwest and east in which all hunting
of moose was prohibited during the preceding two years and which improvement re-
sulted in the provision of an open season in these two areas, extending from October
15th to November 25th, inclusive, and which action was taken in accordance with a pop-
ular demand therefor. There are but few areas in Southern Ontario in which moose
are to be found, and even in these sections their numbers are extremely limited and
scarce. Some increase, though very slight, is reported from North Renfrew, North
Addington and North Muskoka.
CARIBOU: — Caribou are extremely scarce throughout the Province. None are to be
noticed in the southern portion of the Province, and the same condition applies in the
Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming and Manitoulin. In the remaining territory their
numbers are negligible, and little or no improvement was reported from any place.
They are protected by a close season throughout the entire year, and the present
condition of this particular species demands a continuation of this complete protection
for its perpetuation even in limited proportions.
ELK: — The only elk in Ontario are those which were originally imported from Western
Canada several years ago in co-operation with the National Parks Branch of the
Federal Department of Mines and Resources, and the subsequent natural increase.
Some few specimens are located in Bruce County, on Beausoleil Island in Georgian
Bay off the shore of Simcoe County, and on the Peterborough and Petawawa Crown
Game Preserves in the Counties of Peterborough and Renfrew respectively, though
reports from these areas indicate but little improvement. Additional numbers were
placed on Crown Game Preserves in the Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming, Sudbury,
Algoma and Thunder Bay, and in the majority of these instances some increase in
their numbers has been noticed. During 1940 a shipment of eight of these animals
was completed from the Petawawa Crown Game Preserve to the Nipissing Crown Game
Preserve. The hunting of elk is prohibited throughout the entire year.
BUFFALO: — With the co-operation of the Department of Mines and Resources of
Canada, (National Parks Branch) a car-load of buffalo, consisting of sixteen heifers
and four bulls, was imported from Alberta and these animals were placed on the
Burwash Crown Game Preserve, in the District of Sudbury. While reproduction has
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been small there has been but little mortality among the animals which were originally
introduced.
BEAR: — These animals are reported to be quite plentiful throughout the various
Northern Ontario Districts, and in the Districts of Parry Sound, Muskoka and Haliburton
and in the County of Renfrew. They may be hunted or trapped under the authority
of the proper licenses and there is no doubt many enjoy the pleasure which the hunting
of these animals provides. During the spring bear season of 1940, that is from April
1st to June loth, the Department issued one hundred and sixty-one (161) non-resident
hunting licenses, and it may be of interest to say that since the inauguration of this
particular season, some four years ago, there has been an increasing interest displayed
by non-resident hunters in the possibilities for recreation and relaxation thus made
available.
RABBITS: — Reviewing reports with reference to rabbits it would appear that with the
exception of a very few counties the various species continue to be fairly plentiful in
the southern areas. In general terms the prevailing species in the extreme southern
and southwestern portions of the Province are cotton-tail rabbits and European hare,
the latter commonly known as the jack-rabbit, — while the snowshoe rabbit, or varying
hare, exists in the eastern counties and in the areas to the north. Conditions applicable
to rabbits were quite favourable throughout the season, except in Northern Ontario,
where these animals were reported to be not too plentiful though probably increasing
in number. Rabbit hunting is a favourite sport of Ontario hunters during the late fall
and winter months, and a large percentage avail themselves of the pleasure which Is
to be derived from this splendid type of healthy exercise. The restricted daily catch
of cotton-tail rabbits which is now effective in several of the southwestern counties
has probably assisted in some measure in the increase which has been reported from
these areas.
PARTRIDCJE: — The improvement which has been observed in more recent years con-
tinued during the period covered by this report, and considerable increase was reported
from many sections principally in the case of ruffed grouse. The sharp-tailed grouse,
or prairie chicken, is confined to the extreme northern and northwestern portions,
though their numbers could not be described as plentiful. However, general conditions
throughout were sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the declaration of a short open
season. Two periods were included in this open season, viz: — October 1st to October
15th, inclusive, and November 4th to November 16th, inclusive. Limits of catch were
five birds per day, and twenty-five birds in all during the two periods. This open
season did not apply in the Counties of Essex and Kent nor in the Townships established
as Regulated Game Preserve Areas. In these last mentioned Counties and Townships
the open season for partridge coincided with the open season for pheasants.
PHEASANT: — Climatic conditions restrict the area in which pheasants can be
successfully introduced with any certain hope of permanent establishment therein.
While it is not native to the Province it has been possible through intensive re-sto3k-
ing in areas providing favourable conditions to sufficiently develop the pheasant pop-
ulation in such areas to assure such a measure of successful hunting as to warrant
a limited open season for the taking of this splendid game bird. In recent years the
Department has proceeded with a scheme of Regulated Game Preserve Areas in
which all hunting is controlled and where these birds are liberated, and which scheme
in 1940 included some seventy-one Townships or parts of Townships situated in the
Counties of Lambton, Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford, Norfolk, Brant, Haldimand, Welland,
Lincoln, Wentworth, Wellington, Halton, Peel, York, Ontario and Prince Eldward.
Conditions favourable to the propagation of these birds also prevail in areas other
than these Regulated Townships, particularly in the County of Essex, including Pelee
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Island, and in the County of Kent, and in which Counties provision lias also been made
for the distribution of these birds. Details of this distribution which was made in
1940 are indicated by the following statistics: — adult pheasants and poults totalling
16,688 were distributed, 14,963 in the Regulated Townships and 1,725 for general re-
stocking outside of these areas, — County of Brant (three Townships) 664 birds; County
of Elgin (five Townships) 1,000 birds; County of Haldimand (ten Townships) 1,862
birds; County of Halton (four Townships) 1,315 birds; County of Lambton (one
Township) 200 birds; County of Lincoln (eight Townships) 1,650 birds; County of
Middlesex (two Townships) 425 birds; County of Norfolk (four Townships) 820 birds;
County of Ontario (three Townships) 750 birds; County of Oxford (one Township) 200
birds; County of Peel (five Townships) 940 birds; County of Prince Edward (one
Township) 120 birds; County of Welland (eight Townships) 1,685 birds; County of
Wellington (one Township) 200 birds; County of Wentworth (eight Townships) 1,459
birds; and County of York (seven Townships) 1,673 birds. The record of the general
re-stocking additional to the foregoing shows 1,000 birds liberated in the County of
Essex, 400 of which were placed on Pelee Island, 600 birds in the County of Kent,
75 birds in the County of Huron and 50 birds in the County of Brant. The regulations
governing the open season fixed October 31st and November 1st on Pelee Island, with
a limit of five birds per day, or ten for the season, with the provision that three of
the total take could be hen birds conditional upon the payment of $1.00 each for such
hens. In the Regulated Game Preserve Areas the open season was October 25th and
26th, and an additional day, November 1st, provided the Municipal authorities in any
Township issued their special hunting licenses therefor. In fifty-two Townships the
two-day season prevailed, while the three-day season was in effect in nineteen Town-
ships. Limits of catch were three cock birds per day. The same three-day open
season was provided for the County of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and the County
of Kent, as well as the limit of three cock birds per day.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— The efforts of the Department to secure the establish-
ment of this species in the Province have up to the present not been very successful,
except in a few areas. The only localities in which they are found to any extent are
in a few of the southwestern and extreme eastern counties, and even in these areas
their numbers are not too plentiful. Improvement is reported only from the eastern
counties. The open season in 1940, viz, October 25th and 26th and November 1st
applied only in Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and Kent. Two birds per day
constituted the limit of catch.
QUAIL: — Only in a few of the most extreme southwesterly counties are these birds to
be found where they are not very numerous, though localized increases have been
reported. The only section in which an open season was provided was in the County
of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and the County of Kent, on October 25th and 26th
and November 1st. The bag limit during this open season was four birds per day.
DUCKS: — Reports from many sections, particularly in Southern Ontario, would seem
to indicate some considerable improvement in the number and variety of ducks avail-
able during the open season, which generally resulted in a successful season for a
majority of those sportsmen who participate in the hunting thus provided. Since 1935
the hunting regulations which are provided by the Federal authorities under the
Migratory Birds Convention Act, have been made more restrictive and an active pro-
gramme to provide refuges and improved nesting conditions in the far north has been
carried on, all of which factors have contributed to the increase previously mentioned,
and provided there is no natural set-back should continue to prove effective in
maintaining and possibly improving the existing conditions as they apply to this variety
of wild water-fowl.
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I
GEESE: — This species does not play an important part in the general scheme of hunting
in Ontario. Conditions remained pretty much the same as has been stated in Depart-
mental annual reports for the past several years. Successful hunting of this variety
of wild water-fowl is restricted, in Ontario, to the shores of James Bay in the far north
and to the extreme southwestern Counties. In other sections they are seen only in
flight during the fall and spring migration periods and provide very little sport in
the way of hunting.
WOODCOCK: — While these birds, generally speaking, are not too plentiful, they con-
tinue to provide a measure of satisfactory sport for interested hunters in various
sections of the Province, and more particularly in some of the Counties along the
shore of Lake Erie and immediately to the north thereof as well as in the southeastern
counties.
SMPE: — These birds are not very plentiful in any portion of Ontario and are there-
fore not hunted very extensively. While general conditions are not favourable reports
state there has been some improvement and resulting increased numbers in a few
widely separated areas.
PLOVER: — There are but few sections in which these birds can be described as any-
thing but scarce, and little improvement has been observed. Plover are protected
throughout the year by regulations provided under the Migratory Birds Convention
Act.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
Conditions as they apply to fur-bearing animals throughout the Province are
summarized in the following references from reports submitted to the Department
by members of the Field Service Staff: —
BEAVER: — This very desirable species of fur-bearer is quite prevalent in most sec-
tions of the Province except some of the counties in the extreme southwestern
peninsula and in eastern Ontario. In Northern Ontario and in some of the northern
districts in Southern Ontario reports would appear to indicate that conditions were
such as to warrant the provision of a limited open season and restricted catch. The
regulations governing this open season specified that it would be effective from
December 1st to December 21st, 1940, both days inclusive in the territory lying north
and west of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, including the District
of Manitoulin, as well as in the Districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka. Licensed
trappers were permitted to take not more than ten pelts during this open season and
it was further specified that trappers were to dispose of the pelts taken on or before
December 31st. According to returns submitted to the Department some 21,605 beaver
pelts were taken during this open season, and it has been estimated that the value
of these pelts to the various trappers concerned was in the neighborhood of half a
million dollars.
FISHER: — These animals are extremely scarce throughout the entire Province, and
reports indicate that they are practically extinct in the southern portion. The catch
is diminishing quite rapidly.
FOX: — Generally speaking it would appear that this species was not too plentiful
during the year under review, though reports show some increase in different sections.
There was quite a reduced catch in comparison with previous years.
LYNX: — This species has become non-existent in Southern Ontario, and it is extremely
scarce in the north. No improvement is reported from any section, and the annual
take continues to show a decrease.
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MARTEN: — As in the case of fisher and lynx, marten are extremely scarce, and no
improvement has been reported. The catch in the case of this species also shows a
decided reduction.
MINK: — While these animals are reported to be not too plentiful there are indications
that their numbers are increasing in many areas, though probably not to any material
extent. The slight increase in the number taken during the open season may be
attributed to improved conditions to which previous reference has been made.
MUSKRAT: — It is again possible to report an increase in the catch of this species,
some fifty thousand more pelts being taken than was the case in the previous year,
though conditions which applied to muskrat remained practically the same. The open
season is provided by Regulation and this arrangement is perhaps the most satis-
factory in that it is possible to take advantage of propitious weather conditions, and
thus confine the season to a limited period in which there would be little or no
interference with natural propagation. These pelts do not bring an exceptional price
on the market, but by reason of the fact they can be caught in large numbers the
returns to the trapper are of substantial worth. It has been estimated that the
740,000 pelts taken in 1940 were worth approximately $1,500,000.00, or more than half
the value of the total fur catch of the year.
OTTER: — Some improvement is reported from sections in the northern portion of the
Province, and, while otter are not too plentiful, the catch for the year covered by
this report was better than the average for the past ten years, and was exceeded
in that time only by the catch in the preceding year, 1939-40.
RACCOON: — There was a decided decrease in the take of raccoon as compared with
that of the previous year. It is found only in the more southerly portions of the
Province, due to the extreme cold weather which prevails during the winter months
in the north. Conditions with regard to this species remain unchanged.
SKUNK: — Continues to be very plentiful, but their obnoxious methods of defence,
coupled with a low market v^lue, discourage any general efforts by trappers for the
taking of this species.
WEASEL: — There was a decided decrease in the number of weasel which were
trapped during 1940, as compared with the number taken in the previous year. This
cannot be attributed to any substantial decrease in the numbers available, and is
iprobably due to the diminished demand for these pelts, and the resulting poor prices
derived from the sale thereof.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of the various
species of fur-bearing animals which were exported from and dressed within the
Province during the year under review in addition to the three years immediately
preceding: —
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11
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (Cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (white)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
1937-38
496
235
1,463
2,426
24,912
201
47
1,284
1,709
22,766
343,972
3,737
13,194
61,576
79,853
5
1938-39
363
1,366
1,467
2,164
22,366
131
142
785
074
111
893
764
493
89,100
93,488
3
2
25
508
3
9
1939-40
295
33,530
1,382
981
19,925
101
36
514
1,790
36,518
689,706
4,101
14,493
74,176
95,832
2
1940-41
274
21,605
858
722
15,059
67
91
383
1,439
38,976
739,224
3,931
11,973
72,005
53,719
2
From reports received from various licensed fur dealers it has been possible for
the Department to estimate that trappers received a total of $2,677,211.26 from the
catch of fur during 1940-41, an increase of some fourteen per cent over the previous
year, and which increase may be assigned to the general improvement in muskrats,
both take and market value.
The product of licensed fur farms, comprised wholly of fox and mink, disposed
of during the year by such fur farm operators had an estimated value of $1,246,847.66,
an increase of almost $200,000 over the previous year, making the value of the total
fur production of the Province in 1940-41 the sum of $3,924,058.92.
FUR FARMING
The propagation of fur bearing animals in captivity continues to be an industry
of considerable economic importance, particularly during war time, as a large per-
centage of the fur production is exported thereby establishing valuable foreign
exchange. Due to the prevailing uncertainty as regards future markets and the rising
cost of feed some recession was recorded, though 1841 fur farms were licensed during
the calendar year of 1940, the period covered by such licenses, a reduction of only four
per cent.
The subjoined comparative table shows the total breeding stock retained on
these licensed premises as at the first day of January in each of the four years therein
enumerated, and from which it will be noted that these operations are restricted
principally to silver fox and mink: —
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Beaver
Fisher
Fox (cross)
Fox (red)
Fox (silver or black)
Fox (blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Marten
Otter
1938
25
16
235
140
24,848
0
2
21,982
302
351
9
11
0
1939
2
19
197
120
22,923
98
2
30,378
267
284
6
15
0
1940
4
27
168
96
18,327
209
2
31,989
235
243
10
19
2
1941
13
26
134
65
16,034
397
2
34,277
179
139
7
16
2
This breeding stock retained on licensed fur farms as at January 1st, 1941, was
estimated to have a replacement value of $2,094,341.00.
Departmental compilation of fur records shows that licensed fur farmers during
the year 1940-41 disposed of the following pelts from stock raised on their premises,
viz: —
62.281 mink, 59,790 of which were exported and the remaining 2,491 dressed in
the Province.
34.282 silver and black fox, of which 25,001 were exported and the remaining
9,281 dressed in the Province.
285 blue fox, of which 282 were exported, and the remaining 3 dressed in the
Province.
202 cross fox, of which 111 were exported and the remaining 91 dressed in
the Province.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
Practical protection has been afforded wild life through the setting aside of
extensive areas of land as sanctuary for game. At the present time the various Game
Preserves scattered throughout the Province have a combined area of approximately
thirteen thousand five hundred square miles. Much of this land is still in the Crown,
particularly in Northern Ontario, but many of the smaller areas have been set aside
with the consent of the land-owners. Much of the land is wild land, particularly
suited for the development of large and small game, while in the southern section
of the Province they are well adapted to the protection and propagation of upland
game, including birds.
During the period under review only one new Game Preserve was established.
This was the Kapisko Beaver Sanctuary, situated in the District of Patricia. The
primary function of this Sanctuary is to enable the Department, with the co-operation
of the Hudson's Bay Company, to restock the area with beaver, control the annual
take, and provide a restricted trapping ground for the benefit of Indians resident in
the Province. The trapping of fur-bearing animals other than beaver will be permitted
to resident Indians.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
13
The following changes and renewals were made in the case of existing Game
Preserves:
The boundaries of the Nipissing Crown Game Preserve were altered to conform
with changes in the location of Provincial Highway No. 11 which forms the western
boundary of this Game Preserve.
The boundaries of the Waterloo Crown Game Preserve, situated in the County
of Waterloo, were revised and some additional land included in the area.
The Wilder Lake Crown Game Preserve, located in the Township of Egremont,
County of Grey, and the Woodlands Crown Game Preserve, located in the Township
of Trafalgar, County of Halton, were renewed for a further period of five years, to
November, 1945.
A further measure of protection and control is afforded through the scheme of
Regulated Townships. The regulations provide that those who hunt in these regulated
areas must have special hunting licenses issued by the respective Municipal Councils,,
with the approval of the Department, in addition »to the regular hunting licenses re-
quired under the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act, and which has the effect
of restricting the number of hunters who may operate in any particular area and thus
avoid congestion. During the year the following Townships were incorporated in the
scheme, viz: Township of Whitchurch in York County, that part of the Township of
Toronto lying north of the Queen Elizabeth Highway in Peel County, Townships of
Flamboro West and Glanford in Wentworth County, Township of Dunwich in Elgin
County, and the Township of Plympton in Lambton County. The total number of
Townships included in the scheme following these additions was seventy-one.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty payments and
statistics for the current fiscal year and the preceding four years: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Mar. 31, 1937
For year ending Mar. 31, 1938
For year ending Mar. 31, 1939
For year ending Mar. 31, 1940
For year ending Mar. 31, 1941
1,090
1,022
1,031
1,107
738
1,197
837
723
614
400
31
30
41
22
8
2,318
1,889
1,795
1,743
1,146
$33,360.63
27,474.24
25,357.00
25,058.12
16,477.43
Since 1933 the rate of bounty has been $15.00 on adult wolves and $5.00 oa
wolves under the age of three months. An amendment to the Wolf Bounty Act, under
which these payments are made, and which was enacted during the 1941 Session of
the Legislature, provided that the bounty to be paid on wolves killed after March
1st, 1941, shall be $25.00 on adults and $5.00 on wolves under the age of three months.
Reference to the previous table indicates a progressive reduction in the number
of wolves destroyed each year and on which bounty was paid, and it is quite possible
that the increased bounty provided might stimulate operations which have as their
object the destruction of these predators.
During the year 1940-41 nine hundred claims for bounty were submitted for
consideration. These claims were in respect to a total of 1,162 pelts, though claims for
bounty on some sixteen of these pelts, which were not wolves, were refused.
14 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
Bounty was paid to 752 persons who collected a total of $17,550.00, of which the
sum of $1,140.00 was paid by County Treasurers on wolves killed within such Counties,
the bounty in such cases being paid by the Counties, forty per cent thereof being
rebated by the Department.
From information supplied on the applications for bounty it would appear that
500 of these animals were taken by wire snares, 293 were shot, 279 were trapped, and
the balance by methods not indicated on the claims. It has been ascertained that
Indians were responsible for the killing of 341 of these wolves, 319 were killed by
farmers, 199 by fur trappers, and the balance by park rangers, guides, hunters, etc.
The following table sets forth in detail the sources of origin and variety of the
wolf pelts for which application for bounty was made: —
ANALYSIS OF APPLICATIONS FOR WOLF BOUNTY
County or District
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Frontenac
Haliburton
Hastings
Huron
Grey
Kenora
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox & Addington
Manitoulin
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland . . .
Ontario
Parry Sound
Patricia
Peel
Peterboro
Rainy River
Renfrew
Sudbury
Simcoe
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Victoria
Wellington
Totals
Number
of Timber
70
12
18
2
10
6
1
167
10
2
15
19
66
2
41
30
1
2
73
26
62
11
6
88
5
745
Number
of Brush
38
4
2
1
5
72
1
2
1
5
67
4
4
12
7
1
7
1
6
60
2
52
3
40
5
1
409
Number
of Pups
Total
Pelts
112
16
18
8
10
8
2
5
243
1
2
10
1
7
82
4
23
78
7
1
9
42
36
1
2
133
28
114
14
6
128
10
1
1,162
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41 15
Administration of the Wolf Bounty Act during the year under review resulted
in a total expenditure of $16,447,43, of which the sum of $16,410.00 was actually paid
as bounty. Details of this expenditure are as follows: —
Brush Wolves 51 @ $ 6.00 $ 806.00
334 @ $15.00 5,010.00
15 @ $25.00 375.00
400 $ 5,691.00
Timber Wolves 69 @ $6.00 $ 414.00
4 @ $10.00 40.00
640 (g) $15.00 9,600.00
25 @ $25.00 625.00
738 $10,679.00
Pups 8 @ $ 5.00 $ 40.00
8 $ 40.00
TOTAL 1,146 $16,410.00
Expenses 67.43
Total Cost $16,477.43
GENERAL
TOURIST OUTFITTERS: —
The licensing of hunting and fishing camps catering to the tourist trade in
Northern Ontario (north and west of the line of the Canadian National Railway
running between Parry Sound and Pembroke) was continued. Notwithstanding some
uncertainty as to the tourist trade during war time, twenty-five more camps were
licensed than in the previous year. Of the 667 camps operated under license, 615
were owned by residents of Ontario and 52 by non-residents. These camps were
located as set forth in the following table: —
Algoma 95
Cochrane 6
Kenora 157
Manitoulin 58
Nipissing 96
Parry Sound 117
Patricia 2
Rainy River 32
Renfrew 13
Sudbury 57
Temiskaming 4
Thunder Bay 30
Total 667
THE BULLETIN: —
An enlightened public opinion is the best means of securing that co-operation
without which no law can be a success. With this in mind the Department has con-
tinued to issue its bi-monthly Bulletin. This publication in addition to providing
16 DEPARTMEN!D OKI iSAl^IE JANDl FISHERIES ^q, 9 (1942)
information concefiriiig Departmental activities; icbVemttaa:^: phases 'of BaturaV history
and contains other articles of an educational nature. ; It circulates to the press, the
Sportsmen's Organizations, and to an extensive list of private individuals, teachers,
etc., which list has been built up over a period of years through personal application.
Over eighteen hundred copies are mailed each issue. Jbut because of the nature of the
mailing list it is safe to assume that its sphere ol, usefulness and influence as an
educational medium is much greater than the circulation would imply.
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT:— ■ • ^^
There were no amendments to the Game and Fisheries Act enacted durlhg the
session of the Legislative Assembly held in 1940, though special regulations were
adopted by Order^n-Council in accordance with the, provisions of subsection 1 of
Section 6 of the saidiAtet, as iollows:-- 00.32? @ 3S
^q(|>. The period of the spring bear season was extended, and is in effect from
April 1st to June 15th.
uo.Of t . '^it.G I 0- ^ "■
(b) Licenses to _ authorize the use of fire-arms for hunting purposes in the
OO.Oi^ Counties of Essex and Kent, restricted as to period, and are valid only from
October 1st to January 31st, next following.
^^(8)f¥^iiihitingthe use of snares for the taking of beaver at any tlmy.*'^
8i^.T9 ... •:-..->qx:i
(d) Prohibiting the use of snares for any purpose in the Counties of York and
Si'.TTiOntario. _ ,, ...oD IrIoT
(e) Providing a limit of catch on cotton-tail rabbits of six per day in the County
of Lincoln. JAHSMaO
(f) Prohibiting the purchase or sale of cotton-tail ra^bitsrimttJ© ^e^Htyof^
ni sbjsi) Januoj orli ot sni-isiBo zqmao §niflail bnfi snilnud to siiianeail sriT
^Bwllufl IjsfloiifiK nerfiBfiBD 9rfi lo onlf orfj io Jdsv/ bns riiion) oiiBJnO marfiio'/.
9mo8 anibnB^tariiiwJoVl ^^'^ L'^iv\TI^AiJ?yiL^ l^'^^ivjU^^'^'^ L.^'[s'\/V/^iii^'^' XTifi*^ naawjsd gainnin
^i9w aqrafio 9Tom 9vft-^)nlrw7 ,9TiTn^Tlr^"^^i 9riJ oi bjs x^nrBii9Dnu
■9 .9aBtgftal»^^l^ife^^SOth^i^%^'tcR#oi^^W<ihoi^^h6^^a^'^^ed^^irf^ ^^gPg'^tff
1^# elft81*'^me«f;^and^VhV*min%''and 'ris^^rf^ 931r%i^9ei3<V&^^iyi? i'f'^is^'^^B'^^^e^lMt
the various provisions of the Game and I^^lft?ri^S'My*^na'^V^MB'}is^'*Mrg^ofel^!^k
belongs to that ,^ervice whose ceaseless watching is a necessary .p^t of our scheme
of life. But for. liis persistent activity the wild life of the Prcmncej^'ould soon suffer
severely from iUega'rdestfuctidri. During the year under review diere were between
eighty and ninety of h'cers pefmaneritly' engaged in this work .of ns^r^Jl and supervision,
and whose services were augmented by temporary officers ^"^RUffiid, ^l?^ varying periods
when their assistance was most desirable. In addition the pejm^ment also receives
the close co-op^rati'ori of " Provincial Police constables in the. work of enforcement.
There are also ji^nclreds of Deputy Game and Fisheries ^?^®9S*o§fivate individuals
who sufficientlygmterest thehiselVes in this work of protection ta secure the authority
provided under ai^ch' appointments to enable them' to acriridivjcj^ua^lv^ in conjunction
with the regular Overseers in the matter of preventing offences against the Game
and Fisheries A^et. .^ .,j ^, u -"'VV
Due to the extensive land and water areas of the Province each Overseer must
of necessity covje^i a large territory, but despite long patirq^ {these field officers are
quite active in the discharge of their duties.
The Department would, of course, prefer to find law observance ^«o complete
4 hat seizures: and pro&eeutions would ; be 1 unnecessaxy* jfeut, a 1 jaajfinoritF . f^ i mfire\0T less
thoughfeless.and, fnequent^yr unscrupulous ,persQns;jwlij9s«' a<5tivities ;dr9[ :afl mewajciErrto
:A;onservation make ^constant vigilance imperative; :
, . And in, this . connection Dep«,ytnxeiit^l records s)?^w that, dumg l940-il there
r^ere 1S»45 ins-tanqes in which off endieijs were apprehended by various members of th^
enforcement: services, and on wWcli. occasions equipment being used unlawfully,, ^^ffd
fish, game and pelts, taken contrary to the regulations, were confiscated from t^hp^^e
apprehended. In 1176 of these cases the seizures were made by Game and Fisheries
Overseers, Deputy Game and Fisheries Wardens were responsible ^f or the a.ction in.67
.cases, seizures were made in 26 cases by Provincial Police constableis, .while in tljje
rem^ijoi^g 76, caqfis .corogeratiye. action, .by .ftverseqrs,^ Deguty ^anijej W^|:deiis^^an,d
Provincial Police resulted in the seizures. Ibisd &i
The following is a summary of the articles confiscated: —
Live anim|J»)T^.^.c5Q..3.<^.jYj^.yj,^..Hg.|q..2.M--m 5 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 166 cases
snfiB9i bnB Fire-arm8;ajfc4/«»a9MHii4;ioitei^'i^o.Jn9ioi.i«Qda. eri^jin 401 cases -inja
-PAiBz fi ni iWish/ '.iiiu'. :'^i.'4. i'^i-'il .V\ .y.iiUiUj. ^'^d^ -f^^^ cases?! .saoii&is
Nets and fishing equipment v>£iH*in 224 cases iHB -^loJoKi
Angling equipment in 118 cases
-raoi> 9rfj !o |i^i^g '^^(j jji^gg .aoa/ri9rip^^^ cases- '^Q^-
visjiBd WBii fr^^g arid trapping 'equiprtiehV.".: '?:^^^^^ ^o noijslq
Canoes, rowboats & motor boats .. .J.«. .^???^.^lg.^ lift -WWfee^aaatirf'/r lol
Outboard motors in 15 cases
Automobiles and trucks in 19 cases
f lashMgl^s) ^pt-fligh^ [^ ,laftt<|r^575/^ . aHtJTVI*? O^^q^^s
Spears in 57 cases
xas lo jBxIl MisceUaneot£S.> a^^iCle^^e. ^;Aai?^y. .^P. .rf3i3. Jio. /iQUfl*iT45; case^ 9dT
-Ufims ^niJfjdiijaii) bus sni'iujluo ni 9bBfn asi'u ap.Q'i-goiq ingllaoxa /ms/, auotvoiq
with the actual number of seizures carried out would be the fact^^^f^tfi^v^4^f•'l-S^^^?^®
reports would in many cases apply to more than one article, i.e. some reports would
cover traps and pelts, fire-arms and game, fishing tackle and fish, lightsp-.ShdofeitMia,
i^fey^lfjjft^, atfe^rj^og^J^ff^t^g.j aysxso-tq yiU sSB-yiinii aoDaiJBia sniv/oHol 9uT
inciuSia i^^^tg^'^^^i^^ci'iiiiem iMiiM%i%^^Mh'^mm\i'm''^fimB
reported are eleven havfyg^%(^,s and packsacks, ten suitca^g^^and trunks, one hundred
and seventeen duck decg^jpsg^'i? axes, one. battery, and t|?g-<eg ferrets.
Seized pelts incluieS'H'^'| heave'r, 39' f6x(viHdUs splliis) 77 mink, 1817 muskrat,
22 otter, 38 raccoon, IS s"kimk,"98" squitrfel,' 80* Weas6r,l fi^er and 1 lynx, in addition
to 95 hides of deer, moose, efc.
nBrii -^'^MBm'^d'me'^kvm''M?i stk te?i«wfe¥-^m^^f^^m'fe.^<B6"w^av^^Mlflrt•'E nfies.
-s^mE^^ b^^rei^Wotfciiis': f§^M^{^\m^%hmi^^^^vem'k^'im!iva^,^ im-
mune shotguns, 4 pistols and vMmiH^d''^' ^^PWni? ^^'■^^^'''^^^ -^'^^ "^ ^^^^^>^^
Subsequent prosecutions were provided in 1,138 cases, the action bel^^m^WHled
p}iyilGajfm1 afrid',2Pifeh0rafiBrnOyeiFp?erfeMin r.lJiS^i.of thj8ifeficasflH,c4)y-')BiX)t*netal>i^olifce con-
^stkbieB iav-^ai caeeB^i by! Oep^ty Ijlamie. !Wa)r6©Qsiinr'. l)4.'pHBe^p'«iid> b]^ coiro^edatlvel) a«ti<m
oln- 10' «afee3,':{while^ dn-) one casB tbeoc-Harges wea-ei.iHid^ by-r<a;;il)Vivatei JlndivMuaih* in'a,
trespass case under Section 65 ^ of the 'Game and FisUerids ^A«tM In- il}078 eases kioii-
victions were registered, 47 charges were dismissed, and in 13 cases the charges
were withdrawn by the officers responsible therefor. -.^uoit ^w>dnif,5l
tnOlJ bG0f{[9978 ffi>
Upon reference to the statement of revenue which appears earlier in this
'T«port«'itrwill be observed that iiilfes am 0untiiife^rttD.i$a5i416t28. were* dollbcted dtffing the
fiscal year ending March 31s,t^;ilft41,' as. a result. oC these pfosecratiprife^) and ©ft this
anlGiint ^11,990.00 was paid by some eleven persons ; apprehend e^'.wiith^'Uiilauwftii'bieai^iir
18 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
pelts in their possession. The fines in these specific cases varied from $100.00 to
$3,630.00 according to the number of pelts involved in each violation. Not only were
these fines assessed but the beaver pelts found in their possession, and totalling 487,
were also confiscated and included in the sales of furs conducted by the Department,
the proceeds of which sales are also public funds. Beaver pelts included in the Depart-
mental sale conducted in the month of October, 1940, averaged approximately $20.00 per
pelt, so that in addition to their fines these offenders also forfeited to the Crown
some $9,740.00 derived from the sale of their pelts. Verily, the way of the transgressor
is hard!
THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
During the year the Department operated twenty-seven hatcheries and rearing
stations. By means of these facilities the culture of fish was carried out in a satis-
factory and effective manner.
Apart from maintenance, additional hatchery construction consisted of the com-
pletion of the Hill Lake Trout Rearing Station and the construction of a new battery
for whitefish, herring and pickerel at the Glenora hatchery.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
The total distribution of fish of various sizes and ages exceeded that of any
previous year. Excellent progress was made in culturing and distributing small-
mouthed black bass, large-mouthed black bass, maskinonge, pickerel, speckled trout,
herring and whitefish.
Speckled Trout:
The following statistics indicate the progress being made in the culture and
distribution of yearling and older stages of this valuable native game fish.
1936 563,351
1937 1,183,223
1938 • 2,087,990
1939 2,982,874
1940 3,285,264
The production of yearling speckled trout in 1940 was 10 per cent higher than
that of the previous year. In addition, 611,000 fingerlings which could not be accom-
modated in the hatcheries or ponds were distributed.
Brown Trout:
In excess of one-quarter million yearlings and approximately 182,000 fingerlings
were distributed. Favourable reports of successful angling in the larger, lower reaches
of certain southern Ontario streams, where brown trout have been introduced, are
indicative of the success being achieved with this species.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead trout —
The small increase in the number of yearlings distributed was compensated
by the fingerling distribution, which was more than double that of the previous year.
Distribution was made in water areas in which this species has become established.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41 19
(b) Kamloops trout —
The Kamloops trout is the common trout of the interior of British Columbia,
occurring throughout the Fraser river drainage above Hell's Gate canyon and through-
out most of the basin of the Columbia river in British Columbia. Unlike its close
relative, the rainbow trout, it does not descend to the sea. Considerable differences
exist in the characteristics of the species from different habitats, as to colouration,
size, markings, etc., and even in large lakes confusing differences occur among
individuals of the same species.
Generally speaking, they mature and spawn in their fourth year, although under
certain conditions they might not spawn until their fifth year. Spawning takes place
in creeks from April to June. It is stated that some of them spawn on the beaches
of lakes at the mouths of streams tributary to the lakes. In some cases, Kamloops
trout spend their whole lives in streams.
Only a limited amount of authentic information is available on the feeding
habits of Kamloops trout. It is reasonable to expect that insects form the bulk of
the food of specimens under sixteen inches at all seasons, but the staple food of the
larger specimens is probably fish. The kokanee, a diminutive salmon, occurs in very
large numbers in most lakes where the Kamloops trout reaches any considerable
size, and is preyed upon by the latter.
The Kamloops trout is an excellent game fish, and is taken on the fly and by
trolling. When caught it makes a terrific fight for freedom, combining a series of mad
rushes and violent leaps with violent shaking of the head. It fights like the steelhead
trout and requires considerable skill to land. The best fly fishing is obtained in
streams and small lakes and at the mouths of streams flowing into larger rivers and
lakes. The usual weight of the fish taken is from three to four pounds, although they
grow to a much larger size; there are records up to thirty-five pounds.
Small consignments of eyed Kamloops trout eggs were imported from Kamloops,
B.C., each summer from 1934 to 1937, inclusive. The largest losses were experienced
immediately after arrival, particularly in hatchery waters in which a rapid upward
surge in temperature occurred. The original importation to the Pembroke Trout
Rearing Station was experimental but it is evident from later observations that Kam-
loops trout eggs hatch normally and without serious loss in spring water of approx-
imately constant temperature, for example, at the Sault Ste. Marie and Chatsworth
Trout Rearing Stations.
Normandale ponds were used for rearing parent fish, since it was expected that
the location and climatic conditions would be congenial for the species. In 1938 the
Kamloops breeders at Normandale spawned for the first time, and limited numbers
of eggs were collected at that time and during subsequent spawning seasons. Special
mention is made of this fact since it was an accomplishment not previously recorded
in eastern North America. It was reported on good authority that this experiment
was made in a pond in the east prior to 1938 but was not successful.
Previous annual reports contain information on the distribution of Kamloops
trout in Ontario. Successful angling has been reported from Echo lake, in the district
of Muskoka, and Bloom lake, in the district of Nipissing.
On account of its excellent game qualities and the fact that it becomes established
in an environment similar to that inhabited by our eastern or native brook trout,
and since, unlike its close relative the rainbow, it is non-migratory, controlled dis-
tribution in Ontario was recommended. Twenty-six thousand five hundred yearlings
M DEPART JJM^jQjg^^^^ftQigg Jib»g^^tP^HERIES No, 9 (1942)
were distributed this year. The previous distribution oir~yfe'^Ail^^"^'^^i^^*^pecies
"WsaditofmSBSiaiJi'ia 3o 'lo'neini siU lo iuoii noinrno^ siii ai iuoii eqoolmfiyl 9dT
-dsuoirii bns no^rixjo eieO e'lIsH svocfe 9§BniBib isvii isbbi'^ sdi 3i/orisuoiri} sninuooo
^?0f J ^/?"^*/iiln'J .iiidiniiloO ilsWriH. ni lav'n BidmuIoO sdi lo niaiid 9rij 'lo Jaom ijjo
ee >/i viTfesre ^Kft&i4iBa?imcireasft)rPf9/li5 (fief,fP0»Jt,nnMJ|eft4W^ributiftftjot^^iifB4r9Bl |!yyij%l^
^iide»rfifts!erio£r>26;^; perjsiceBb i»ijt^ftej^st<yiibHtipn. iC^riing?rHpg^ija:.i9j.>Bqijfj.j eriJ ni Jeizs
^xi(H'i •n/:)00 gsjrisisJJib arreijlrioo r/j;{«i y^'Ji-I lii nyve bne ..JiJa .aaniMicm ,9sie
.«9fo9ffa 9m/i8 3ili 1o glfinblvibn;
An increase of 23.5 per cent in the distribution of whitefish fry as compared
with." that; of the previous ye:^r:.was achieved,. This conijepend^jile .mcfe!^e,,.w:^s due
to the splendid cooperativ^e efforts of , our hatcher^y off^cwSirrPPjft,AWPtflJ^i^I>/(?5§>^gj£^i^,
conimerci«,l : fishermen. ;o -^,,-0^ .-jii L:-Ji.ta ^1 ji .ijxrjjL oj li-qA mo-ij giiasiL* ni
^: j r;;i:H .ygai: ;i{bI srIJ ol xifi^i^di'i:f BfnsaiJs So erIJuom 9£lj i£ 89iBl lo
.^imnoTta nr S97il oloriv/ Tiorfj bnsqg :Jno-!}
The distribution of herring fry was 27 per cent more than the previous year,
%>yery, .creditable showing, gi noucmfoiai oUnsdJuu lo jnuoms bojirnii js vinO
Yeltow Pickerel {Pike-Perch): „ ^ , . , r . ,
VI9V 3ilif iPerqent^^^, increas^i/^^^tl^ ,^?m^m ^if^^^^.9^ ffJ^^^^^'^MiMmn^m^n
ijDfal^ly .th^ ,sai^^ ^^..itlWLt, r^ejcpr^ei|.,4,if?;i?ig^ tj^e. P!PEiy4ous^jr^r,jj^^ef5r, ^Q,^ jif^ fi^if^^i
Following the customary procedure, 2,000,(100' eyed' eggs' were handled ^y the
Sparrow Lake, hatchery, and the fry were distributed over suitable natural spawning
ny£:ti K> p^>n9? £ ^fTinKuiiO'j ,niob99Ti lol iri§ft oilfii9J js 89ifBm Ji irfsuBo aedW .snilloii
^WaiUMouthed Blkck Bassi^ -br.-D:! 9r(j 3o S"i>^£ii8 .trigloi'/ riiiw gq/sgl in^lori has, ted&ni
'" Exceptionally good 'i)r?)|Ykr^^as^ffiAe^ln-¥Sl ^Aft^^^M^Sm^lifel^^^^
bass. The percentage increased distribution of fry and finger!fii^ ^^siM'^and^S.^
per cent, respectively: '■'''■' '^ ^^'s^^'^ ^^'^^^^ ^''^ ■^'''''^'
; m7 9vil-YJ'iidi oi qu ebioosi 9Tb eigrii ;9si8 isgiBl riDura b oJ woia
Large-Mouthed Black Bass:
.eqc-o!^-^ fttih'dr^d*^^^lftW,f«C^^sM'^^fiP?,«8}/9
r^6ared and distributed froin t\Vd srnlll p6ri'ds 'at M6unt''^iya^arit-^'S? A?^'*ife?niii^^da-bW
distribution considering the limited pond areas under cWtivatiiyri'.'^ '^'^'^^ Xle^fcibomnii
:dm94 mii oi iioUaiioqmi iBnisiio 9dT .b9'i'iiJDoo 9'iuJBi9qm9i ni 9SiU8
Yellow Perc/KiioiJBvioado 79jbI raoil *n9bi79 ei H iud lBin9mli9qx9 8Bv/ noiJfiJS anriB9H
-y-' The niitaib^ ^f ^i^^chiel^^ Amimie^iWHm ^iMnl^^df^'Hlrfgi^vi'l^le-qiMteto-y, Idk^'
Etife, is subjfetit^ tti' •wke^J^u^itikfioW^ -est^h '^fiH'>: ''TW^ ^i^bdiafctroA ' Vri^'^^itt^itt* 'Id^ir^'
in 1940 than in the two years immediately preceding, but higher 'th'aTi'"'iiii'9S?.^^ UunT
Jfirij iGottsidering?/tllie90cniimdPcialfi'raJijeaofijfehe p^^dlv.ithariacolletetioqp xif iBpaana-ln the
adJteiB(£$ lofii b, ctosedqaeai^c^nrtdib iinpostanit.9d bluow 8noiiibno:> oiJBmilD bnB noi^Bool 9/U
h'i9dinrfi b9Ji/niI bni; .oiriiJ J«iQ 9iiJ 'loi bsnwfiqs 9lBbnB/mo'/[ JB 8i9b99'rd 8qooImB>I
^i^ft'(!^"^^'fios£9r; snifiv/Bqe ineupoadua jJiiriub bn/j emii jxiriJ jb b9};;9[lo/ 9-197/ h?^?,o 5o
preceding, year, but this; iW#ft!jgr|5«My iftffq^jilM^^>9n:,4»crflasej.9^i ,7,^vB »^,^eR^^j|iB|h/?f
distribution of fmgerlipgs-^ joii «£;// tui ^r.CI 0I noi-ia r^.i-y orU iii Jiao-i >; nl ohnrn f ii v
.,. ..?^9!:i t?^^ f^^9^^. >Vme .m^tl^e l>J^tpj^^.^g^^^Jh^^;I^^^artmenp,.,m^sk^^^^
Q| >iz95bl^_; proportions were, reare^j,W.,the,^y ^^t^od, ^^mel^,^^^,300.,^iu^^f^3a, ^^nd.
2,333 in 1940. This work wa^^^p^^tjip^ ^^ #MUK«tKP^i&Wi§§l^^^ri^?M-^8nr//
L9deiIdBJ89 89moc»9d Jl 3&ili jQBl^iin.Wt^y<yiJJXi;ui,L^i£;jL bH lo inuooDB nO
,iuo-ti jfooid eviJBn lo ineihB^ tjVo v.a 1> (lifTifrfn iBnj oJ iBlimis Jn9mnoiivii9 lu. ...
-8lb iC^i^POftie^-'ifliSlst^t'ottiiaiir^ metft6d«j*« ti<ihs*tvlrig' the" breefditfg ' stock? df flsh^
ig"tb''clfei§e^1iii?t^' bf' fiatiii*k'r ^^r-atter' Sreft'^' t'o^ fishf^g; m these arfeas tli^ fish thriVe*
(SJ^6I) e .oVI s^m^uAnNXDOL HiEeou'EtoiSRiOdaaiTHAqaa ^%
Uritiioutiiiitei-fefdnc&^andlSBiSeafleioIjotb^ar pactte ofcstlseoBiumie ri-Ketevorsiakdo lE^ such
means a permanent toreediug-catxxaEliJsiti^ '»f»,.5andZtllereoisqfeaken»/feacbiye9asiOHiyjIatb«i
natural increase from it. jj.oi.t .!>Ii>i -lo'i .71 .oZ !.»ri/j ,;G'i9jli>jq lo't .rl oX
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and propa-
gation of fish, the tollo^^Xr^'^^iS^^paCeiCC) di^ringlAH^CB^ISIl^Pril 1, 1940, to March
31, 1941:
r-;yv/ .' ,; ^M ' r. , r ^--'1 uuoii , I i 'U .>^ viiJii'ids'I oj ,0^ei J2 i9dm9D9a rao'i'I
sriT Jx®,Y94jPw°«,#l?J|y|S?°Mya?nI^.%*??H'"M^ bns bsibnuri sviS bnaauori) saO
2. CEDAR'CREEK (Part),'^^ ^-'^'^■^ -^^^ ^ ^^^^ ei^iljm btiB sail ddi io Jrigiaw 9se'i9V£
Township of Dumfries North, County of Waterloo.
3. OHEMONG LAKE (Part^,YaVHU8 .TADIDOJOia
4. DEEP BAY (Pai^t of Sparrow Lake)',--Ji^'8 ?-^'^ 'i J^^^'^ Ij3Jiioibni ,y9iO 'Io x^^nuoo
Township of Matchedash, County of Simcoe. „ , ,
fcii -eme'ia ij;.!.,..^ • rratsb oj b9GimBX9 ajsv/- :§o§ua8 95IbJ
S5>«^JQ^(3SE!I LAKE (Part of S'Cugog Rivei^, esprit 5o 9n0 .9§fl0fli3faBm lol 89nBuJ'jiiB2
•9*t%Kvtt8hip of Perielott, County of Victoria. -'^sd a'saivl is isilJo edi bna bn^lsi
;6. 'GOOSE LAKE, -'bI fIp,uo-iodi'lgjjOv.l bun hAbI jibH nosv/Jsd niBb b lol gjig A
* Townships of FettelieHi^lianStt'Somei^iiJ^ CJsarfityi od^i^ictoHaidBiissh ai iiiBb grU
7;,.HARVEY GREEK or NOGIE'S CREEK^ tir,.,-,-, <,,() 'io f[-.rjfi-tf a 'to noUuIIo^
• ;i' c- (From the dam at Bass Lake to the dam near Pigeon Lake)gi esw ,noJffiH Io
.iiinUi i^Townships of Galway)jaadc:Hari?ey,.iGo^ntyrolj ^ciarl)oriough.rijuog iaut ifonBid
.bela-^lj^Dvin oj;!£ feiiv/ levi'i Biiol/I 9fIJ 3o noi:fjjIIoq sriT
8. LITTLE MUD LAKE,
r/soIoiciTdwnship of Sniith^,i€k)ulity of jReterhOroUgheasH eeiiedel'K oiiBJnO 9riT
aifiBsiJ- i.::i, - ■; V ' i ;;is vioJB'iodBl bnn bloi'i boi/fiiinoo .oJno'ioT Io xil^^eyil1'J
9. MASKINONGE CREEK. ^^^^ ni^pnosIA ni
(From Maskinonge Lake to Little Vermilion Lake, and part of Maskmonge and
V10 JB'io^Littl-ef' Vermilion: ;:Lakefl>, •ib9'{ feuoivo'iq odi 'Jo eiubeooiq sdi ;^niwoIIo1
Xd bsbiWo^nshipS of '. Buefceffeft^lHJglatfe ^i*:ri^^ iSatfiotuPf KeHQfltw b9:>Bi9qooD
nr bsbjff-inr :•?. '..J x.i.- f-oi-fj-! srfT .eshorfsi'? bax; f-m/jO ''o In^fri-t-iBCToa ohfiinO 9fli
^(^ MpINTYRE RIVER, from mouth to John Street Road, Port Arthur, and ^ .
^.,,,,N:fcE^BtNG RIVER, from mouth to First bridge gii Arthur Street, t'prt William.
ff. ^^feWficfec^ LAKE (P^rt^,^^^'^ b9qqijjp9 ss/f gAouii jIibH sril 5o 9ao ib9X airiT .ntt
819JBY/ ^HIWH^i^'of ■Ci-(isb5r4^rteeted>t!tefcy^iS*)%ftli,^6^^^ ^'^^ iioqanBiJ
io 89onBiIo 7i9(lj o} vj:. 9-1:2 bbB bir.'oria rl-)iri[v/ .looo sJiup IliJ8 g'ryv/" 39>fBl 9fli io
t4.9dDBlNI€ON LAKE (Part . looaHy.rknpwn'.ap 'IPifo^^e^ ^Mehne ai n .iBviviua
n99J 9vTdwnship of GjPosbyiSquthiiCounty Qfl.-L^d^nid,:.! Hno^n^q IIb bnB ,8snUnBfq
9dJ loi T.©r>n»Wpt/;ftloepSm^>»J^i GpuMyn^fl E8terl?§r^^J^<£lq lulaagooua iaift 91IT
E!'''^m!AM'co^ne^iig'^^i'ls& k^'wSW^'^J^er'' «"^^ bBdailqmoDOB bbw ii;o.;
Township of Crosby North, County of Leeds.
.lu'lbHO-joua ioa aBW 819}bw
>X9 9rfi oJ saiwo xMBmi/g
16. TWELVE MILE GREEK* (Part soiith-eastqof Highway! tNf).{)5)^n'3UBO 9i9W rlguong
Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar, County of Halton.
eril iiir.y. ■;.--,. ,.;i;.,o ;,;,; •;<;■;- .- .r .hI .ct^Ai^l yjllHiWi 3d1 5o 99iriT
l/7t)9^WHJTEFISH, BASS' aiMii<JLSAJlLAKES,niri8il i9«o Jon ob rioiriw bnB xB'^d-gid
Townahipi!of;H«m|>hrfey, District of Parryt SooncbJiB na bnR JuoiJ lol 9ldBJrr;g
22 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
All of the waters enumerated above are closed to protect black bass and
maskinonge, with the exception of No. 2, for speckled trout, No. 10, for rainbow trout,
No. 14, for pickerel, and No. 17, for lake trout.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH
From December 27, 1940, to February 8, 1941, hoop nets and trap nets were
operated in Ahmic lake and tributary waters, for the removal of ling and suckers.
One thousand five hundred and twenty-seven ling and 234 suckers were caught. The
average weight of the ling and suckers was 5 lbs. and 2V^ lbs., respectively.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
A biological survey of Curley lake, concession VI, lot 26, township of Glenelg,
county of Grey, indicated that it was suitable for large-mouthed black bass.
Lake Scugog was examined to determine the suitability of certain areas as
sanctuaries for maskinonge. One of these areas is located at the south tip of Scugog
island and the other at King's bay, located at the northwest side of the lake.
A site for a dam between Hart lake and Loughborough lake was investigated;
the dam is desirable in order to keep Loughborough lake at a more normal level.
Pollution of a branch of the Credit river, in the township of Esquesing, county
of Halton, was investigated. A small stream flowing through Georgetown enters this
branch just south of the town, carrying with it wastes from a paper processing plant.
The pollution of the Moira river was also investigated.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Biology,
University of Toronto, continued field and laboratory studies of lakes and streams
in Algonquin Park.
Following the procedure of the previous year the members of the laboratory
cooperated with the Park staff in distributing speckled trout yearlings provided by
the Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries. The lakes stocked are included in
the lists in Appendix No. 1, under the district of Nipissing. Speckled trout planted
in Brewer, Cache, Costello and Opeongo lakes were marked by removal of the adipose
fin. This year one of the Park trucks was equipped with tanks making it possible to
transport the fish earlier in the season and to plant them while the surface waters
of the lakes were still quite cool, which should add greatly to their chances of
survival. It is extremely important that we should measure the success of these
plantings, and all persons fishing in the lakes in which speckled trout have been
planted are urged to report their catches through the medium of the creel census.
The first successful planting of lake herring in lake Opeongo as food for the
trout was accomplished this year by transferring 250 six inch lake herring from Mary
river near Huntsville.
The transport of adult lake trout from more inaccessible to heavily fished
waters was not successful. The pound nets were set in White Trout lake, but pre-
sumably owing to the extremely backward season the trout did not run and not
enough were caught to warrant the expense of continued fishing.
Three of the smaller lakes, Jacks, Sproule and Sunday, accessible from the
highway and which do not offer fishing at present were investigated. These seem
suitable for trout and an attempt to develop fishing in them is planned.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41 23
In all, twenty-one lakes were closed to fishing in 1940. These lakes will be
open in 1941. Raven, Head and Merchant lakes, which were closed in 1939 were open
in 1940. No creel census reports were received from Raven lake but the fishing in
both Head and Merchant showed the benefit of the year's respite. The availability
of lake trout in Head lake was almost twice as great in 1940 as in 1938. The situation
in Merchant lake is more complicated owing to the history of the fishery there but
there is no doubt that the fishing was substantially improved by closure. Owing
apparently to a slow growth rate, a single year's closure does not make a marked
change in the size composition of lake trout catches, but it does in the case of
speckled trout. Merchant lake which was famous for the size of its speckled trout
in the past, but which had more recently been disappointing in this respect, again
yielded some nice catches in 1940. The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory is
anxious to receive full reports of fishing in these lakes through the creel census
in order to assess the benefits of closure.
It was not possible to carry on as extensive a creel census in 1940 as in previous
years. It is of interest to note that 1940 is the first year in which bass were reported
in any numbers from Happyisle lake, although they were known to occur there. This
rise of a bass population to a fishable level is a further and, it is to be hoped, a last
spread of this species in the Opeongo drainage. The creel census of lake Opeongo
has now been carried on for five years. The accumulated data have not only enabled
the investigators to follow the trend of the lake trout fishery there but are now also
sufficient to make a first approximation of the spawning escapement. It remains
to be seen whether the escapement in 1936 was sufficient to maintain the stock. An
answer to this should be found in the next two years when the young fish resulting
from the 1936 spawning will be entering the fishery. Enough creel census returns
for bass have now been received to make possible a classification of the bass fisheries
similar to that established for the lake trout. Bass lakes in which the average length
of the fish captured is between eleven and twelve inches produce the greatest
availability of these fish. Most of the creel census work was confined to Algonquin
South but records were also gathered for lake Traverse and vicinity. This is of
particular importance since lake Traverse is the only lake in the Park offering lunge
fishing.
The investigations of the food habits of the game and forage fish were con-
tinued. The work on the food and growth of the yellow perch is almost completed.
The routine examination of the stomach contents of lake trout, speckled trout and
bass was continued at lake Opeongo.
The study of the whitefish population in lake Opeongo was continued; there
are dwarf individuals which mature at two years as well as the more usual individuals
that grow to three pounds, or more, and mature at four years.
Studies were made on the quantitative methods of sampling the plankton
population of certain lakes. Tests were made on the use of a smaller and more con-
venient form of the tube sampler which has proved to be more accurate than other
samplers currently in use.
Stream studies, carried out from early May until mid-September were con-
cerned with the insect fauna and the speckled trout. Two locations were selected,
Mud creek, a tributary of the Madawaska river near the east gate of the Park, and
the rapids below Tea lake dam on the Oxtongue river. At the former location the
quantitative distribution of aquatic insects on different types of bottom and in
different reaches of the stream was studied. Changes in the fauna of a rapids flooded
out by a beaver pond last year were followed, showing some interesting results
which were reported at the meeting of the American Fisheries Society held at
24 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
Toronto in September. At Tea lake dam an opportunity was afforded of investigating
the feeding of speckled trout. Quantitative collections of the insects emerging from
the water which form a large percentage of the trout food were made and trout were
taken and their stomach contents are being examined to find what elements of the
food available to the trout are eaten by them at different times of the day and year.
During this study it was noted that the trout were absent from the rapids^,below the
dam from approximately the 20th of July to September 1st.
Work carried on in the experimental laboratory at Opeongo was concerned with
various ways in which environment may affect or limit the activitie^s of fish. An
investigation of immediate practical importance to our technique of restocking was
to ascertain what surface temperatures might be considered unfavourably high for
Hhe planting of speckled trout. It was found that speckled trout, straight from the
holding troughs, would die within twenty-four hours if placed in water at 73° F.
Further, the gradual equalizing of the temperature of the water in the fish can to
that of the bath over a period of fifteen minutes gave no appreciable benefits. How-
ever, by first exposing the fish to a moderately high temperature for twelve hours
(65° F.) it was possible to raise the lethal temperature from 73° F. to 79° F., even
although the fish had been returned to cooler water over night. A study of the lethal
temperatures of the various species of fish in the waters of the Park was begun.
Studies on the respiratory tolerance of fish were continued, and experiments on
the circulatory capacity of fish were conducted by measuring the volume of blood
passed by the heart at each stroke. This apparently differs widely in different species
of fish and we believe it may be one of the differences between those fish which
can live in warm water and those which cannot.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Department is indebted to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
and its many constituent Fish and Game Protective Associations throughout the
Province and to the Northern Ontario Tourist Trade Association, as well as to
interested sportsmen and conservationists for their active co-operation and splendid
assistance in the protection of the provincial fish and game resources. . The activ-
ities of these Associations and individuals have undoubtedly played a prominent part
in developing the spirit of conservation now prevalent in the Province, and have
materially helped to make our work in the Department more agreeable and pleasant.
In closing this report I desire to make reference to the work of the staff.
Members of the service, both inside and outside, generally have been conscientious
in the performance of their work, and courteous in their contacts with the public,
in an endeavour to assure the best results.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries.
ANNUAL REPORT. 19 40-41
25
APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
APRIL 1st, 1940, to MARCH 31st, 1941.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Brant:
Fairchild's Creek 15,000
Frontenac :
Bear Lake 5,000
Coles Lake 5,000
Dog Lake 5,000
Lower Trout Lake 5,000
McCliQtock Lake 5,000
Mud Lake 5,000
Spectacle Lake 5,000
rialiburton:
Black Lake 15,000
Lanark:
Silver Lake (Sherbrooke) . . 5,000
Leeds:
Benson Lake 5,000
Cranberry Lake 5,000
Gananoque Lake 5,000
Graham Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Lyndhurst Lake 5,000
Newboro Lake 5,000
Sand Lake 5,000
South Lake 5,000
Whiteflsh Lake 5,000
Ontario:
Wagner Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Crystal Lake 15,000
Lovesick Lake 10,000
Salmon Lake 15,000
Spence Lake 10,000
White Lake 15,000
White Duck Lake 15,000
Victoria:
Scugog River 10,000
Waterloo:
Conestogo River 10,000
Huron :
Mountain Lake
Simcoe:
Orr Lake
York:
Toronto Island Lagoons
ADULTS
Brant:
Oakland Pond
Norfolk:
Milford Pond
Oxford:
Maplehurst Lake
1,000
1,000
1,000
52
50
50
FINGERLINGS
Pike Lake
Potomac Lake
Bruce :
Stuart Lake
Desbarats Creek
500
Turtle Lake
Marl Lake
500
Twenty-five Cent Lake
Unnamed lake in U Tp
Grey:
Curley Lake
1,000
Brant:
Saugeen River
500
Scotland Pit Pond
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Algoma:
Allan Lake 7,500
Alma Lake 5,000
Appleby Lake 5,000
Bass Lake (Striker) 7,500
Bass Lake (168) 7,500
Basswood Lake 5,000
Boundary Lake 7,500
Bright Lake 5,000
Carpenter Lake 7,500
Cummlngs Lake 7,500
Darren Lake 7,500
Dean Lake 15,000
Duck Lake 5,000
Foot Lake 5,000
Grassy Lake 5,000
Green Lake 5,000
Horn Lake 5,000
Lake of the Mountains 15,000
Lauzon Lake 10,000
Long Lake (Patton) 7,500
Lost Lake 7,500
McKee's Lake 15,000
Meikel Lake 5,000
Mine Lake 5,000
Mississagi Lake 15,000
Mountain Lake 5,000
5,000
12,000
7,500
5,000
5,000
7.500
15,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Elgin:
Pinafore Lake 10,000
Union Pond 10,000
Frontenac :
Collins Lake 10,000
Mississippi River 10,000
Pine Lake 10,000
Shircliff Lake 5,000
Grenville:
Rideau River 10,000
Grey:
McCulloch Lake 2,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 45,000
Haliburton:
Big Bob Lake 15,000
Elephant Lake 15,000
Gull Lake 15,000
Head Lake 15,000
Koshlong Lake 15,000
Kushog Lake 15,000
Mink Lake 15,000
Miserable Lake 15,000
Monk Lake 15,000
Mountain Lake 15,000
Paradise Lake 15,000
Placid Lake 15,000
Round Lake 15,000
South Lake 15,000
Halton:
Twelve Mile Creek 10,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 15,000
Bass Lake 10,000
Beaver Creek 5,000
Bennett Lake 20,000
Big Salmon Lake 10,000
Burnt Lake 5,000
Crow Lake 5,000
Crow River 5,000
Eraser Lake 5,000
Gull Lake. 5,000
' Gunter Lake 5,000
Jordan Lake 5,000
Little Salmon Lake 5,000
Moira Lake 20,000
Moira River ; . 10,000
Oak Lake 10,000
Parks Creek 10,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Spring Lake 10,000
Trent River 10,000
Wadsworth Lake 5,000
Weslemkoon Lake 10,000
Lanark:
Bennett Lake 10,000
Black Lake 10,000
Christie Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Otty Lake 10,000
Pike Lake 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Leeds:
Benson Lake 5,000
Cranberry Lake 5,000
Little Long Lake 5,000
Little Rideau Lake 10,000
Lyndhurst Lake 5,000
Newboro Lake 10,000
Opinicon Lake 5,000
St. Lawrence River 25,000
Sand Lake 10,000
Singleton Lake 10,000
Traynor Lake , 5,000
Whitefish Lake 5,000
Lennox-Addington :
Bass Lake 5,000
Beaver Lake 5,000
Buckshot Lake 10,000
Cedar Lake 5,000
Duck Lake 5,000
Lime Lake 5,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake 15,000
Otter Lake 5,000
White Lake 5,000
Manitoulin:
Bass Lake 15,000
Kagawong Lake 15,000
Middlesex:
Thames River 20,000
Muskoka:
Camels Lake 5,000
Clearwater Lake 5,000
Davis Lake 5,000
Deer Lake 5,000
Devine Lake 5,000
Dickie Lake 5,000
Duck Lake 5,000
Gillies Lake 5,000
Haleys Lake 5,000
Kashe Lake 15,000
Lake Joseph 5,000
Leach Lake ' 5,000
Little Sand Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Draper) 5,000
Long Lake (Stephenson) . . . 5,000
MacKay Lake 5,000
Mainhoods Lake 5,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 40-41
27
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941 — Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Muskoka — Continued
Martin Lake 5,000
Muskoka Lake 30,000
Muskoka River 5,000
Poverty Lake 5,000
Rosseau Lake 5,000
Three Mile Lake 5,000
Tookes Lake 5,000
Wood Lake 5,000
Nipissing:
Beaver Lake 5,000
Bruce Lake 5,000
Herridge Lake 5,000
Lake Champlain 5,000
Little Martin Lake 5,000
Martin Lake 5,000
Martin River 5,000
McPhee Lake 5,000
Nosbonsing Lake 5,000
Olive Lake 5,000
Opechee Lake 5,000
Talon Lake 5,000
Wasing Lake 5,000
Wickstead Lake 5,000
Northumberland :
Rice Lake 20,000
Trent River 35,000
Ontario:
Severn River (N. Branch)
20,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 20,000
Arthur Lake 5,000
Bain Lake 5,000
Barton Lake 5,000
Bass Lake (Humphrey) . . . 5,000
Beaver Lake (Bethune) . . . 5,000
Billies Lake 5,000
Blackwater Lake 15,000
Caribou Lake 5,000
Cecebe Lake 10,000
Charter Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Coles Lake 5,000
Commanda Lake 5,000
Deer Lake (Lount) 25,000
Deer Lake (Wilson) 5,000
Doe Lake 5,000
Eagle Lake 5,000
Hamers Lake 5,000
Jack's Lake (Armour) 10,000
Jack's Lake (Mills) 5,000
Kawigamog Lake 5,000
Kelcey's Bay 5.000
Lake Joseph 5,000
Lake of Many Islands 30,000
Lake of the Woods 5,000
Limestone Lake 5,000
Little Clam Lake 5,000
Little Lake Joseph 5,000
Little Long Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Mills-Wilson) . . 10,000
Louisa Lake 5,000
Lynch Lake 10,000
Maganetawan River 10,000
Manitowaba Lake 5,000
Manson Lake 5,000
Maple Lake 5,000
Mary Jane Lake 5,000
M'cQuaby Lake 5,000
Memesagamesi Lake 5,000
Mill Lake 5,000
Neighick Lake 10,000
Pickerel Lake 20,000
Portage Lake (Humphrey) . . 5,000
Portage Lake (McDougall) . . 5,000
Rankin Lake 5,000
Restoule Lake 5,000
Rosseau Lake 5,000
Ruth Lake 5,000
Sharrows Lake 5,000
Shawanaga Lake 5,000
Shebeshekong Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 5,000
Six Mile Lake 5,000
Spring Lake (Lount) 10,000
Squaw Lake 5,000
Stanley Lake 5,000
Star Lake 5,000
Stormy Lake 5,000
Sucker Lake 5,000
Ten Mile Lake 5,000
Toad Lake 5,000
Trout Lake (Humphrey) . . . 5,000
Turtle Lake 5,000
W^hitefish Lake 5,000
Whitestone Lake 5,000
Wilson Lake (Hagerman) . . 5,000
Wilson Lake (Wilson) .... 5,000
Wolf Lake 5,000
Wolf River 5,000
Woodcock Lake 5,000
Peel:
Credit River 10,000
Peterborough:
Big Cedar Lake 5,000
Chemong Lake 15,000
Clear Lake 10,000
Deer Bay 10,000
Indian River 10,000
Jack's Lake 10,000
Katchiwano Lake 10,000
Little Cedar Lake 5,000
Little Lake 5,000
Long Lake (Burleigh) 10,000
Long Lake (Douro) 5,000
Loon Lake 10,000
28 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Peterborough — Continued
Lovesick Lake 10,000
Otonabee River 20,000
Pigeon Lake 15,000
Stony Lake 20,000
Trent River 5,000
White Lake 5,000
Prince Edward:
Consecon Lake 8,000
Roblins Lake 8,000
West Lake 8,000
Renfrew:
Bonnechere River 10,000
, Hurds Lake 10,000
U., Olmstead Lake 10,000
Simcoe:
Deep Bay Sanctuary 30,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 15,000
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake 30,000
Metagamesi Lake 15,000
Nepahawin Lake 12,000
Penage Lake 40,000
Ratter Lake 10,000
Spanish River 30,000
Wanapitei Lake 30,000
Whitewater Lake 15,000
Timiskaming:
Lake Timagami 10,000
Victoria :
Balsam Lake 25,000
Burnt River 15,000
Crooked Lake 15,000
Dalrymple Lake 20,000
Pigeon Creek 10,000
Round Lake 15,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Sturgeon River 20,000
Waterloo:
Black River 10,000
Grand River 10,000
Nith River 10,000
Paradise Lake 10,000
Wellington :
Puslinch Lake 20,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma:
Aberdeen Lake 2,000
Alma Lake 3,000
Bear Head Lake 1,000
Caribou Lake 2,000
Cloudy Lake 2,000
Cooper Lake 2,000
Desbarats Lake 2,000
Diamond Lake 2,000
Elbo Lake 4,000
Friendly Lake 4,000
Gordon Lake 2,000
Iron Lake 2,000
Jiggery Lake 500
Kapuskasing Lake 1,000
Keichel Lake 1,000
Lonely Lake 2,000
Long Lake (Victoria) 1,000
Marie Lake 2,000
Marion Lake 1,000
McCarroll Lake 2,000
Miller Marsh Lake 2,000
Patton Lake 2,000
Pipe Lake 1,000
Rock Lake 2,000
Unnamed lake in U Tp 3,000
Windfall Lake 5,000
Brant:
Grand River 600
Oakland Pond 500
Bruce:
Arran Lake 3,000
Boat Lake 3,000
Chesley Lake 4,000
Isaac Lake 2,000
Sauble River 3,000
Saugeen River 2,000
Silver Lake 1,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 1,000
Cochrane:
Baart's Lake 500
Frontenac:
Bass Lake (Loughborough). 1,000
Big Clear Lake 1,000
Bobs Lake 2,000
Brule Lake 1,000
Buck Lake (Bedford) 1,000
Buck Lake (Kennebec) 1,000
Collins Lake 1,000
Cranberry Lake 1,000
Cross Lake 1,000
Crotch Lake 1,000
Crow Lake 1,000
Devil Lake 1,000
Eagle Lake 3,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
29
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
WATERS
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continned
Frontenac — Continued
Farm Lake
Fortune Lake
Gull Lake (Clarendon)
Horseshoe Lake
Indian Lake
Kashwakamak Lake
Long Lake (Olden)
Long Lake (Portland)
Loughborough Lake
Marble Lake
Mazinaw Lake
Mink Lake
Mississagagon Lake
Quebec Lake
Riley Lake
Rock Lake
Salmon Lake
Sand Lake
Sharbot Lake
Shaw Lake
Sydenham Lake
Varty Lake
White Lake
Grenville:
Nation River
Rideau River
Grey:
Francis Lake
Mountain Lake
Pearl Lake
Haliburton:
Bark Lake
Bat Lake
Bay at mouth of Buck Lake
Cameron Lake
Cranberry Lake
Kashagawigamog Lake ....
Long Lake
Maple Lake
Moore Lake
Paul Lake
Pete Lake
Seeton Lake
Third Lake
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake
Crow River
Hinchcliff Lake
Loon Lake
Moira Lake
Tongamong Lake
Whetstone Lake
Huron:
Maitland River
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
2,500
1,000
1,000
4,000
500
1,000
1,000
2,000
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
3,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
500
2,000
3,000
2,000
3,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
Lanark:
Dalhousie Lake 1,000
Gillies Lake 500
Horn Lake 500
Kerr Lake 1,000
Mississippi River 1,000
Patterson Lake 1,000
Round Lake 1,000
Leeds:
Charleston Lake 1,500
Gananoque Lake 1,000
Lower Beverley Lake 1,000
Red Horse Lake 1,000
Rideau Lake 1,000
Sand Lake 1,000
Whitefish Lake 1,000
Manitoulin:
Bayfield Sound 7,500
Big Lake 3,000
Ice Lake 6,000
Lilly Lake 5,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Manitou Lake 6,500
McGregor Bay 1,200
Mindemoya Lake 12,000
Silver Lake 6,000
South Bay 20,000
Tobacco Lake 6,000
Whitefish Lake 2,500
Muskoka:
Abbs Lake 1,000
Crooked Lake 1,000
McKay Lake 1,000
Six Mile Lake 1,000
Walker Lake 1,000
Nipissing:
Bear Lake 500
Cache Lake 3,000
Clear Lake 500
Cowley Lake 500
French River 2,250
Kaibuskong Lake 500
Little Sturgeon Lake 500
Lower Twin Lake 500
Moore Lake 500
Muskosung Lake 3,000
Nipissing Lake 4,500
Poplar Lake 500
Spruce Lake 500
Talon Lake 500
Tomiko Lake 6,000
Trout Lake 10,000
Turtle Lake 500
Wistiwasing Lake 500
Norfolk:
Waterford Gravel Pit Pond
600
30 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Northumberland :
Rice Lake 800
Ontario:
Lake St. John
Parry Sound:
Bass Lake (Hardy)
Bass Lake (Patterson)
Big Lake
Blue Lake
Crane Lake
Crooked Lake
Devolve Lake
Eagle Lake
Goose-neck Lake
Haynes Lake
Horseshoe Lake
Irish Lake
Lennon Lake
Long Lake
Loon Lake
Maganetawan River
McVeety Lake
Milton Lake
Moffat Lake
Mud Lake
Kipissing Lake
Oastler Lake
Orange Lake
Rainy Lake
Shoal Lake
Smith Bay
Spring Lake
Trout Lake (McDougall) . .
Watt Lake
Wiggins Lake
Wolf Lake
Wright Lake
Peterborough:
Bald Lake 900
Bass Lake 800
Belmont Lake 800
Bottle Lake 900
Buck Lake 1,500
Catchacoma Lake 1,500
Chemong Lake 1,000
Crab Lake 800
Crystal Lake 800
Duck Lake 800
Eagle Lake 1,800
Gold Lake 900
Jack's Lake 800
Kashabog Lake 1,000
Katchiwano Lake 1,000
Little Mud Lake 500
Little Trout Lake 1,000
Lovesick Lake 1,200
1,000
500
1,000
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
500
1,000
500
500
500
1,000
500
500
1,000
2,000
500
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
500
500
500
Mississauga Lake 1,000
Oak Lake 1,000
Round Lake 2,654
Sandy Lake 900
Stony Lake 2,000
Talon Lake 800
Trout Lake 800
Twin Lake 1,000
Wolf Lake 800
Renfrew:
Calabogie Lake 1,000
Chats Lake 1,000
Constant Lake 1,000
Ferguson Lake 1,000
Frederick Bay 1,000
Green Lake 500
Hyde Bay 500
Loon Lake 500
Mink Lake 1,000
Moccasin Lake 500
Morans Lake 500
Round Lake 1,000
Smiths Lake 500
Stones Lake 1,000
White Lake 1,000
Simcoe:
Bass Lake 2,000
Cook's Lake 2,000
Couchiching Lake 2,000
Gloucester Pool 3,000
Kempenfeldt Bay 2,000
Nottawasaga River 2,500
Park Lake 3,000
Sudbury:
Bass Lake (Dennison) 2,500
Bass Lake (36-37) 3,000
Charlton Lake 2,500
Cranberry Lake 3,000
Cross Lake 750
Edith Lake 750
French River 1,750
Frood Lake 2,500
Howry Lake 1,500
Ivanhoe Lake 750
LaCloche Lake 1,000
Maple Lake 1,000
McCharles Lake 2,500
Nelson Lake 1,500
Nipissing Lake 500
Penage Lake 4,000
Poulin Lake 3,000
Shanty Bay 1,000
Tower Lake 3,000
Trout Lake 1,250
Vermilion Lake 1,000
Thunder Bay:
Boulevard Lake 6,000
Selwyn Lake 3.000
Shebandowan Lake 3,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 40-41
31
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
— Continued
Timiskaming :
Bear Lake
Beaverhouse Lake . .
Bloom Lake
Emerald Lake
Hanging Stone River
Lake Timagami
• Sesekinika Lake . . .
Shanty Lake
Victoria:
Cameron Lake
Head Lake
Mud Turtle Lake . . .
Round Lake
Wellington:
Allan's Dam
Armstrong Dam ....
York:
Lake Simcoe
Miscellaneous:
Sales
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant:
Burford Lake
Grand River
Scotland Pit Pond
Hastings :
Crow Lake
Manitoulin:
Perch Lake
Middlesex:
Sydenham River
Muskoka :
Skeleton Lake
Norfolk :
Waterford Pond
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake
Great Lakes:
North Channel
500
500
500
500
500
500
1,000
500
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,500
2.000
2.000
5,000
110
73
100
100
24
107
542
105
100
410
MASKIIVONGE
FRY
Carleton:
Ottawa River 25,000
Frontenac :
St. Lawrence River 20,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 10,000
Hastings :
Bay of Quinte 35,000
Beaver Creek 20,000
Crow Lake 20,000
Crow River 20,000
Moira Lake 20,000
Moira River 35,000
Sears Lake 10,000
Stoco Lake 15,000
Tongamong Lake 20,000
Trent River 40,000
Twin Lakes 5,000
Whetstone Lake 10,000
Leeds:
St. Lawrence River 30,000
Muskoka:
Kahshe Lake 15,000
Sparrow Lake 20,000
Nipissing:
Lake Nipissing 30,000
Lake Traverse 5,000
Wolseley Bay 30,000
Northumberland :
Rice Lake 75,000
Trent River 140,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 10,000
Parry Sound:
Lake Nipissing 20,000
Pickerel River 10,000
Peterborough:
Bald Lake 10,000
Belmont Lake 50,000
Buckhorn Lake 25,000
Chemong Lake 80,000
Clear Lake 80,000
Deer Bay 80,000
Deer Lake 5,000
Gilchrist Bay 20,000
Indian River 15,000
Kashabog Lake 20,000
Katchiwano Lake 120,000
Little Lake 10,000
32 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
MASKINONGE— Continued
Peterborough — Continued
Little Mud Lake 20,000
Little Trout Lake 50,000
Lovesick Lake 40,000
Otonabee River 40,000
Pigeon Lake 50,000
Rice Lake 20,000
Round Lake 50,000
Sandy Lake 15,000
Stony Lake 250,000
Trent River 20,000
Twin Lake 5,000
White Lake 15,000
Prince Edward:
East Lake 10,000
West Lake 15,000
Renfrew:
Black Bay 10,000
Cory Lake 10,000
Cushene Lake 10,000
James Lake 15,000
Lac du Bois Dur 10,000
Montgomery Lake 15,000
Redbridge Lake 15,000
Stephenson Lake 5,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 20,000
Lake Simcoe 25,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 20,000
Sudbury:
French River 20,000
Thunder Bay:
Lac des Mille Lacs 5,000
Victoria:
Balsam Lake 40,000
Burnt River 15,000
Cameron Lake 20,000
Dalrymple Lake •, . . . 15,000
?Jud Turtle Lake 15,000
Pigeon Creek 40,000
Pigeon Lake 60,000
Pigeon River 80,000
Scugog Lake 40,000
Scugog River 10,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Young's Lake 10,000
Waterloo:
Nith River 5,000
FINGERLINGS
Peterborough :
Belmont Lake
Buckhorn Lake
Clear Lake
Gilchrist Bay
Katchawanooka River . . .
Rice Lake
Searight Bay
Stony Lake
Simcoe:
Lake Couchiching
Victoria:
Pigeon River
Sturgeon River
200
200
200
200
200
200
23
510
200
200
200
PERCH
FRY
Lake Erie 13,000,000
PICKEREL
EYED EGGS
Sparrow Lake 2,000,000
FRY
Algoma:
Allan Lake 500,000
Anjigami Lake 1,000,000
Arnill Lake 500,000
Bright Lake 500,000
Canoe Lake 1,000,000
Caribou Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 1,000,000
Crab Lake 100,000
Cummings Lake 500,000
Dean Lake 250,000
Desbarats Lake 1,500,000
Gordon Lake 500,000
Granary Lake 350,000
Keichel Lake 500,000
Lake of the Mountains 150,000
Lauzon Lake 500,000
Lillyget Lake 500,000
Little Basswood Lake 500,000
Little Clear Lake 500,000
Marion Lake 250,000
Mississauga River 500,000
Pipe Lake 500,000
Rock Lake 500,000
Spanish River 500,000
White Lake 500,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
33
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Bruce:
Berry's Lake 750,000
Boat Lake ; 1,000,000
Chesley Lake 1,000,000
Isaac Lake 1,000,000
Sauble River 1,000,000
Saugeen River 750,000
Seips Lake 300,000
Silver Lake 200,000
Sky Lake 1,000,000
Spry Lake . 250,000
Carleton:
Ottawa River 500,000
Cochrane:
Bigwater Lake 200,000
Bobs Lake 200,000
Nighthawk River 200,000
Round Lake 100,000
Whitefish River 300,000
Frontenac:
Bass Lake 250,000
Big Clear Lake 200,000
Big Gull Lake 700,000
Big Lake . 200,000
Bobs Lake 1,950,000
Cross Lake (Kennebec) ..... 700,000
Crotch Lake (Palmerston) . . 500,000
Crow Lake 300,000
Dean Lake 100,000
Fourteen Island Lake 100,000
Green Bay Lake 200,000
Green Lake 500,000
Gull Lake 700,000
Horseshoe Lake 100,000
Kashwakamak Lake 1,850,000
Long Lake (Olden) 250,000
Long Lake (Portland) 450,000
Malcolm Lake 500,000
Marble Lake 200,000
Mazinaw Lake 500,000
McClintock Lake 100,000
Mink Lake 100,000
Mississagagon Lake 750,000
Mississippi River 800,000
Otter Lake 100,000
Red Pine Lake 300,000
Salmon Lake 300,000
Sharbot Lake 500,000
Varty Lake 100,000
Grenville:
Nation River 400,000
Rideau River 1.000,000
Grey:
Mountain Lake 750,000
Haldimand:
Grand River 1,500,000
Haliburton:
Cauntaus Lake 500,000
Elephant Lake 1,000,000
Mink Lake 150,000
Otter Lake 250,000
Paudash Lake 1,000,000
Wolf Lake 500,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 800,000
Bow Lake 200,000
Crow Lake 1,000,000
Crow River 200,000
Lime Lake 100,000
Mallard Lake 200,000
Moira Lake 500,000
Moira River 300,000
Rock Lake 500,000
Salmon Trout Lake 100,000
Sears Lake 100,000
Silent Lake 250,000
Tongamong Lake 1,000,000
Trent River 500,000
Kenora:
Andy Lake 250,000
Berry Lake 1,500,000
Blindfold Lake 1,500,000
Bowden Lake 750,000
Clay Lake 750,000
Corner Lake 1,500,000
Eagle Lake 3,000,000
Ely Lake 250,000
Lake of the Woods 58,175,000
Long Bow Lake 1,500,000
Lulu Lake 1,500,000
Marchington Lake 3,000,000
Silver Lake 1,000,000
Vermilion Bay 1,000,000
Wabigoon Lake 1,000,000
Winnipeg River 1,000,000
Lanark :
Barbers Lake 200,000
Bennett Lake 400,000
Black Lake 150,000
Christie Lake 800,000
Dalhousie Lake 500,000
Gillies Lake 200,000
Keatings Lake 100,000
Kerr Lake 500,000
Long Lake 100,000
Mississippi Lake 700,000
Mississippi River 1,300,000
Otty Lake 300,000
Patterson Lake 500,000
Round Lake 200,000
Spectacle Lake 500,000
Whites Lake 450,000
Leeds:
Clear Lake 200,000
Crosby Lake 500,000
34 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Leeds — Continued
Devil Lake 250,000
Graham Lake 100,000
Higgley Lake 150,000
Loon Lake 200,000
Opinicon Lake 800,000
St. Lawrence River 1,700,000
Sand Lake 750,000
Traynor Lake 150,0^0
Upper Rideau 1,000,000
Wolf Lake 500,000
Lennox-Addington :
Beaver Lake 1,000,000
Camel Lake 500,000
Cedar Lake 300,000
Duck Lake 200,000
Long Lake 500,000
Loon Lake 500,000
Mazinaw Lake 600,000
Van's Lake 100,000
White Lake 100,000
Manitoulin:
Burnt Lake 1,000,000
Manitowaning Bay 500,000
Mindemoya Lake 4,000,000
South Bay 500,000
West Bay 1,500,000
Muskoka:
Allen's Lake 300,000
Axel's Lake 150,000
Crooked Lake 750,000
Kahshe Lake 250,000
Lake Muskoka 800,000
Long Lake (McLean) 250,000
Mootes Lake 150,000
Silver Lake 250,000
Six Mile Lake 750,000
Skeleton Lake 250,000
Nipissing:
Beaver Lake 200,000
Bruce Lake 200,000
Cedar Lake 500,000
. French River 1,000,000
Kaibuskong Lake 100,000
Lake Champlain 200,000
Lake iNipissing 4,100,000
Lake Timagami 1,000,000
Little Martin Lake 100,000
Lower Twin Lake 200,000
Marion Lake 400,000
Martin Lake 800,000
Martin River 600,000
McPhee Lake 200,000
Moore Lake 250,000
Net Lake 200,000
Nosbonsing Lake 1,000,000
Opechee Lake 150,000
Red Cedar Lake 200,000
Rib Lake 200,000
Talon Lake 500,000
Tilden Lake ; 200,000
Tomiko Lake 1,000,000
Twin Lake 100,000
Wasaki Lake 200,000
Wasing Lake 200,000
Wickstead Bay 500,000
Wolseley Bay 1,000,000
Northumberland:
Crow Bay 500,000
Crow River 500,000
Rice Lake 1,000,000
Trent River 3,000,000
Ontario:
Lake St. John 1,000,000
Mud Lake 1,000,000
Severn River 1,500,000
Oxford:
Lakeside Lake 1,000,000
Nith River 1,000,000
Parry Sound:
Ahmic Lake 650,000
Barton Lake 200,000
Bass Lake 200,000
Billie Lake 100,000
Burnt Lake 100,000
Cecebe Lake 300,000
Charter Lake 200,000
Clear Lake (Mills) 100,000
Clear Lake (Watts) 200,000
Commanda Lake 250,000
Cranberry Lake 100,000
Crooked Lake 200,000
Doe Lake 600,000
Duck Lake 100,000
Haynes Lake 150,000
Isabella Lake 300,000
Jacks Lake 100,000
Kawigamog Lake 450,000
Lake Joseph 400,000
Lake Nipissing 2,000,000
Lake of Many Islands 100,000
Lake Rosseau 2,700,000
Little Lake Joseph 250,000
Little Long Lake 100,000
Long Lake (Mills) 100,000
Long Lake (Patterson) 200,000
Long Lake (Wilson) 100,000
Loon Bay 500,000
Maganetawan River 450.000
McKeown Lake 100,000
McQuaby Lake 100,000
McVeety Lake 100,000
Memesagamesi Lake 1,100,000
Merrick's Lake 50.000
Mill Lake 200,000
Naiscot Lake 500,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
35
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
PIC KEREL— Continued
Parry Sound — Continued
Neighick Lake 100,000
Oastler Lake 800,000
Pickerel Lake 250,000
Pickerel River 500,000
Portage Lake 450,000
Rainy Lake 200,000
Restoule Lake 600,000
Ruth Lake 100,000
Ryans Lake 100,000
Sharrows Lake 100,000
Shawanaga Lake 300,000
Shebeshekong Lake 100,000
Shoal Lake 200,000
Silver Lake 100,000
Snakeskin Lake 100,000
Squaw Lake 400,000
Stanley Lake 150,000
Stewarts Lake 200,000
Stormy Lake 100,000
Sucker Lake (Humphrey) .. 300,000
Sucker Lake (Mills) 100,000
Theodelite Lake 100,000
Toad Lake 200,000
Wahwashkesh Lake 1,000,000
Whitestone Lake 300,000
Wilson Lake 150,000
Wolf River 1,500,000
Manitowaba Lake 200,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 1,000,000
Buckhorn Lake 1,000,000
Concession Lake 100,000
Connolly's Lake 500,000
Deer Lake 500,000
Indian River 500,000
Little Cedar Lake 500,000
Little Trout Lake 500,000
Long Lake (Burleigh) 1,000,000
Loon Lake (Chandos) 1,000,000
North River 500,000
Oak Lake 1,000,000
Otonabee River 500,000
Rice Lake 2,000,000
Round Lake 1,000,000
Trent River 1,000,000
Twin Lakes 1,000,000
Prince Edward:
Consecon Lake 300,000
West Lake 300,000
Rainy River:
Clearwater Lake 6,000,000
Lake of the Woods 1,500,000
One-sided Lake 4,500,000
Quill Lake 3,000,000
Rainy Lake 58,000,000
Sabaskong Bay (Lake of
the Woods) 15,000,000
Steeprock Lake 2,000,000
Renfrew :
Black Bay 300,000
Calabogie Lake 200,000"
Chats Lake 500,000
Constant Lake 250,000
Cushene Lake 100,000
Dempsey's Lake 100,000
Dore Lake 500,000
Golden Lake 500,000
Hardwood Lake 200,000
Hazel Bay 250,000
Hurds Lake 200,000
Jones Lake 100,000
Lafleur Lake 100,000
Madawaska River 400,000
Muskrat Lake 250,000
Norway Lake 450,000
Olmstead Lake 250,000
Otterson Lake 100,000
Petawawa River 500,000
Stephenson Lake 100,000
Sturgeon Lake 250,000
Westmeath Lake 250,000
White Lake (McNab) 500,000
White Lake (Raglan) 250,000
York River 200,000
Russell:
Castor River 1,000,000
Simcoe:
Gloucester Pool 4,000,000
Little Lake 500,000
North River 2,500,000
Nottawasaga River 600,000
Severn River 2,000-,000
Six Mile Lake 750,000
Stormont:
St. Lawrence River 1,600,000
Sudbury:
Agnew Lake 1,000,000
Cameron Lake 100,000
Charlton Lake 500,000
Clear Lake 100,000
Crooked Lake 250,000
Cutler Lake 250,000
French River 3,000,000
Ivanhoe Lake 500.000
La Cloche Lake 1,000,000
Lake Penage 2,000,000
Long Lake 750,000
Lovering Lake 100,000
Makido Lake '. . . 1,000,000
Matagamasi Lake 400,000
McFarlane Lake 200,000
Minisinakwa Lake 1,000,000
Moose Lake 250,000
Nepiwasy Lake 500,000
Richards Lake 200,000
Shanty Bay 1,000,000
Wanapitei Lake 1,000,000
36 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF PISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
PICKEREL— Continued
Sudbury — Continued
Wliitewater Lake 200,000
Tliunder Bay:
Lake Windigoostigwan 500,000
Timiskaming:
Bear Lake 250,000
Beaverhouse Lake 250,000
Blue Lake 200,000
Cedar Lake 75,000
Gillies Lake 75,000
Granite Lake 75,000
Hound Chute 75,000
Kenogami Lake 300,000
Lake Timagami 2,000,000
Net Lake 100,000
Portage Lake 75,000
Round Lake 100,000
Tomiko Lake 75,000
Twin Lake 100,000
Victoria Lake 100,000
Wendigo Lake 250,000
Victoria:
Little Turtle Lake : 1,000,000
Mud Turtle Lake 500,000
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 3,000,000
North Channel 19,000,000
Lake Huron 23,862,000
ADULTS
Middlesex:
Sydenham River
100
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Brant:
Whiteman's Creek 10,000
Elgin :
Big Creek 15,000
Grey:
Potawatami River 10,000
Saugeen River 20,000
Styx River 10,000
Muskoka:
Indian River 5,000
Kahshe Lake 5,000
Norfolk:
Big Creek 10,000
Little Otter 15,000
Nanticoke Creek 10,000
Unnamed Stream 2,000
Northumberland :
Bowens Pond 725
Peel:
Credit River 10,000
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga River 40,000
Wellington:
Speed River 10,000
York:
Humher River 10,000
YEARLINGS
Brant:
Scotland Pit Pond 500
Whiteman's Creek 3,600
Bruce:
Albermarle Creek 1,200
Fladd's Dam 500
Lockerby Creek 3,600
Plum Creek 3,600
Saugeen River 7,250
Snake Creek 1,800
Spring Creek 1,000
Sucker Creek 1,600
Teeswater River 3,600
Vogt's Creek 1,000
Willow Creek 1,600
Cochrane:
Mattagami River 2,500
Durham :
Bowmanville Pond 1,500
Ganaraska River 2,000
Mordens Creek 1,500
Rowe's Pond 500
Stephens Creek 1,500
Vanstone's Pond 1,500
Elgin:
Big Creek 3,600
Deer Creek 500
Little Otter 3,600
Otter Creek 500
Grey:
Beaver River 1,500
Big Head River 10,800
Lueck's Mill Pond 3,000
Potawatami River 2,700
Sauble River L800
i
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
37
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
I
BROWN TROUT— Continued
Grey — Continued
Saugeen River 12,600
Styx River 3,600
Sydenham River 4,400
Haldimand:
Rogers Creek 1,800
Halton:
Sixteen Mile Creek 2,000
Twelve Mile Creek 13,300
Hastings:
Rawdon Creek 3,600
Huron:
Maitland River 9,000
Nine Mile River 3,600
Lambton:
Bear Creek 1,000
Lincoln:
Effingham Stream 1,500
Twelve Mile Creek 1,000
Middlesex:
Caddy Creek 500
Medway Creek 2,200
Norfolk :
Big Creek 10,800
Clear Lake 1,500
Little Otter 3,000
Nanticoke Creek 3,800
Stony Creek 400
Venison Creek 1,500
Northumberland :
Cavan Stream 2,700
Cole's Pond 500
Dudley's Pond 250
Ontario:
Chubtown Creek 1,500
Oxford:
Burns Creek 1,000
Horner's Creek 1,000
Peel:
Credit River 3,000
Perth:
Avon River 2,100
Halfway House Creek 2,100
Peterborough:
Deer Bay Creek 8,000
Eel's Creek 9,600
Jack's Creek 3,700
Mississauga River 7,000
Mount Pleasant Stream 1,500
Simcoe:
Boyne River 3,700
Nottawasag^ River 16,800
Willow Creek 3,000
Waterloo:
Bridgeport Dam 1,500
Cedar Creek 1,000
Dentinger Creek 2,200
Fisher Mill Dam 1,500
Gingerich Creek 1,000
Welland :
Lyons Creek 8,000
Wellington :
Conestogo River 2,200
Everton Stream 1,500
Speed River 6,300
Wentworth :
Bronte Creek 2,100
York :
Hoover Pond 300
number River 6,000
Exchange
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGGS
FRY
575,000
Frontenac :
Big Gull Lake 20,000
Brule Lake 5,000
Buck Lake 20,000
Buckshot Lake 30,000
Camp Lake 5,000
Canoe Lake 5,000
Canonto Lake 15,000
Chambers Lake 5,000
Crotch Lake 35,000
Crow Lake 20,000
Draper Lake 15,000
Eagle Lake 10,000
Granite Lake 5,000
Green Lake 20,000
Grindstone Lake 10,000
Kashwakamak Lake 10,000
Loughborough Lake 15,000
Mackie Lake 15,000
38
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Frontenac — Continued
Mississauga Lake 10,000
Palmerston Lake 25,000
Reid's Lake 15,000
Schooner Lake 25,000
Sharbot Lake 30,000
Haliburton:
Deer Lake 5,000
Drag Lake 25,000
Eagle Lake 10.000
East Lake 5,000
Parquhar Lake 10,000
Fishtail Lake 5,000
Hurricane Lake 5,000
Kashagawigamog Lake 10,000
Kushog Lake 10,000
Long Lake 5,000
Moose Lake 10,000
Paudash Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 5,000
Redstone Lake 35,000
Ritchie's Lake 5,000
Spruce Lake 5,000
Hastings:
Baptiste Lake 60,000
Bass Lake 15,000
Big Salmon Lake 10,000
Burnt Lake 3,000
Cedar Lake 10,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Devil Lake 5,000
Dickie Lake 7,000
Eagle Lake 30,000
Gunter Lake 5,000
Jamieson Lake 5,000
Kaminiskeg Lake 10,000
La Vallee Lake 5,000
Limestone Lake 5,000
Little Salmon Lake 20,000
McKenzie Lake 5,000
Robinson Lake 30,000
Silver Lake 10,000
Trout Lake 5,000
Wadsworth Lake 5,000
Lanark:
Rideau Lake 60,000
Rob's Lake 5,000
Silver Lake 15,000
Leeds :
Charleston Lake 15,000
Indian Lake 20,000
Red Horse Lake 15.000
Wolf Lake 20,000
Lennox-Addington :
Buckshot Lake 30.000
Elbow Lake 15,000
Little Weslemkoon Lake . . . 5,000-
Loon Lake 60,000
Otter Lake 10,000
Thirty Island Lake 20,000
Weslemkoon Lake 10,000
White Lake 10,000
Peterborough:
Belmont Lake 20,000
Big Cedar Lake 10,000
Bottle Lake 10,000
Catchacoma Lake 25,000
Crystal Lake 10,000
Eagle Lake 30,000
Eel's Lake 30,000
Gold Lake 10,000
Jack's Lake 30,000-
Little Cedar Lake 10,000
Long Lake 10,000
Loon Lake (Chandos) 60,000
Mississauga Lake 30,000
Oak Lake 20,000
Sandy Lake 15,000
Trout Lake 30,000
Twin Lake 10,000
Wolf Lake 10,000
Great Lakes:
North Channel 2,654,000
Georgian Bay 960,000
Lake Huron 640,000
Lake Ontario 1,860,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma :
Achigan Lake 10,000
Axe Lake 5,000
Bass Lake 25,000
Basswood Lake 42,500
Bevins Lake 10,000
Big Clear Lake 10,000
Bull Lake 4,000
Burn Lake 5,000
Canoe Lake 1,000
Caribou Lake 5,000
Carry Lake 3,000
Chiblow Lake 30,000
Clear Lake (Scarfe) 5,000
Clear Lake (188) 5.000
Cobri Lake 5.000
Coffee Lake 7.000
Cummings Lake 15.000
Deep Lake 5,000
Diamond Lake 5,000
Goetz Lake 5,000
Grey Trout Lake 10,000
Hawk Lake 10,000
Hobon Lake 10.000
Howard Lake 10,000
.Tobammeghia Lake 3,000
Lake of the Mountains 5,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
39
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
Algoma — Continued
Little Chiblow Lake 5,000
Little Pickerel Lake 5,000
Long Lake 15,000
Loon Lake 5,000
Madawonsing Lake 4,000
Matinenda Lake 22,500
Miller Lake 4,000
Moon Lake 7,000
Patton Lake 5,000
Rackey Lake 5,000
Rand Lake 10,000
Ranger Lake 25,000
Raw Hide Lake 35,000
Red Deer Lake 10,000
Robertson Lake 10,000
Sand Lake 10,000
Saymo Lake 15,000
Spruce Lake 10,000
Tookenay Lake 50,000
Trout Lake (Aweres) 5,000
Trout Lake (24-R-62) 10,000
Upper Island Lake 5,000
Wakomata Lake 25,000
White Lake 10,000
Bruce :
Gillies Lake 15,000
Cochrane:
Bigwater Lake 5,000
Bobs Lake 5,000
Mary Lake 5,000
Nellie Lake 10,000
Perry Lake 6,000
Remi Lake 20,000
Three Nation Lake 5,000
Watabeag Lake 10,000
Haliburton:
Big Bear Lake 10,000
Big Bob Lake 5,000
Boskung Lake 15,000
Bow Lake 5,000
Clear Lake 5,000
Crozier Lake 5,000
Dack's Lake 5,000
Deer Lake 10,000
Farquhar Lake 10,000
Gull Lake 10,000
Haliburton Lake 5,000
Hall's Lake 5,000
Hardwood Lake 5,000
Hollow Lake 35,000
Horseshoe Lake 10,000
Kashagawigamog Lake 15,000
Kimball Lake 5,000
Leaf Lake 5,000
Little Bear Lake 5,000
Little Boskung Lake 5,000
Little Hawk Lake 5.000
Maple Lake 10,000
Moore Lake 5,000
Oblong Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 10,000
St. Nora's Lake 5,000
Stocking Lake 5,000
Stormy Lake 8,000
Twelve Mile Lake 5,000
White Trout Lake 5,000
Wolf Lake 7,000
Kenora:
Blue Lake 25,000
Canyon Lake 30,000
Cedar Bough Lake 5,000
Clearwater Bay (Lake of
the Woods) 50,000
Cul de Sac Lake 60,000
Dogtooth Lake 30,000
Dryberry Lake 30,000
Eagle Lake 45,000
Granite Lake 10,000
Lake of Two Mountains 15,000
Little Vermilion Lake 15,000
Mameigwess Lake 11,700
Sturgeon Lake 30,000
Thunder Lake 20,000
Trout Lake 30,000
Vermilion Bay 25,000
Whitefish Bay (Lake of
the Woods) 40,000
Manitoulin:
Mantiowaning Bay 12,000
West Bay 12,000
Muskoka:
Bella Lake 5,000
Big Twin Lake 1,000
Clear Lake (Ridout) 10,000
Fairy Lake 5,000
Fox Lake 5,000
Lake of Bays 47,000
Lake Joseph 15,000
Lake Muskoka 25,000
Lake Rosseau 35,000
Long Lake (Cardwell) 5,000
Long Lake (Chaffey) 1,000
Long Lake (Oakley) 5,000
Loon Lake (Sinclair) 5,000
Oxtongue Lake 5,000
Paint Lake 10,000
Peninsula Lake 5,000
Pine Lake 10,000
Rebecca Lake 10,000
Skeleton Lake 20,000
Solitaire Lake 4,000
Stoney Lake 5,000
Surprise Lake 5,000
Vernon Lake 10,000
Nipissing:
Ababika Lake 10,000
m
DEPARTME3>BT:rOFrGAMIBa .AIDU3/FIJSHERIES No. 9 (1942)
Apnttii»t;)i«ft(>;ito-'Marrih'i81feti.:194atf^G(anlilrae(i
000,01 LAKE TROUT^ContiilHddtilqiil/
000,5 ^-AlA 9700I/:
Ni^issing— tContinued. . . . y^fsJ gnohfO
B'e^V Lake •. . •. •. •. . . . . . •. -. •. •• . n^^^ ^BJ6tiO
' '<5kirney Lak-e • •• •. ; •. •. •. .^^^v^. .8>'io>' 5,tj^0
^•^'edar Lake • •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. . ^^f^A . S«i>'-^5,000
*'<Ctfess Lake • •. ■. -. ■. •. •. •. •. -. •. . ??^A4 '^^^ 5,000
"rWamond Lake •.-.•. .Vl^^k ?M¥ ^'^^'4,060
"<til(/tty Lake • . -. -. •. •. . r^?:\ AHQiT 9Ji2,000
' ' 'Fatty Lake • •. •. •. •. -. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. .V!^^ ■>t2,0<)0
Herridge Lake 5,000
Jumping Caribou Lake 2,000
cKailDuskong Lake >,> :».;...; 1,000
* J^ake Timagami >.,,., .wjljsa no 10,000
Martin Lake . ^MlsJ-.tlv^uoQ i;; 5,000
Moore Lake'io. esf^av .^R'd .t^uvv^! 5,000
Net Lake ^hUqq'H 5,000
Noble Lake ojl£.L oJi8 ah 5,000
' Hib Lake ewta.!. jUoo 5,000
Spring Lake . > , , .oi-'is J. :ri-i') 1,000
Talon Lake... ^ifisJ t 5,000
tnTomiko Lake ..,-.4»;fua oJi;:5,000
(t'Wikstead Lakeiui^utiioy. j^'jvX Jo 5,000
•'*■";,. ' -''-.l noilinnoV ol^.^i
?afi^ Sound: ''^^^^ ^^^^u■^l^mn]/.
'^^ Lake .V.^l^irfW;Obo
;;;^;ig: Loon Lake •.•.•.•./. .^Vf^^.^,' 5,000
^p'lear Lake ..'.•. •.•.•.•.•.•.•• ^^P.,, 5,000
"^feagle Lakfe- •.•.V.V.-.n---^-"^- 5,000
High Lake J^?.??f^rP. J.^?. e*^!^'^ 5,000
Horseshoe Lake ....■.•...:... 5,000
Hughes Lake 5,000
Lake Joseph •."'-10,000
^'^IL'akfe Rosseau .-. .'i^^. .^iiin^v/oii*5,000
^'^Mtle Lake Joseph •. •. -. ■. •. •. . /.■ ■ 5;000
Lorimer Lake 25,000
Memesagamesi Lake '• a^-lo^^u:
< < .Otter Lake . e And dOMO
'liMafnkin Lak.e. ................ -s^b J. tiiv/T ^MO
(-<Rutai Lake .(.tiiofjiJi) . e>fijJ -i; 5,000
< (Bolmon Lake. ................. .9i{i3 J '(iMOO
(MjSe^nd Lake . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .9:1x5 J 10,000
(.(SpTJng Lake .axKa. lo iv,5i000
(HS^ilJcer Lake .riqe^o I '; &,000
0(!rea: Lake fi-AoAi^aU 'j MOO
(•(Three-legged. X.ake. .... . j.'ca^.rio}l 'ilO.OOO
(riTrout hs^^e ...i..i,rJib-iJi:X).eoinJ 45.000
0(T)Tenty-eight .LaUe]Ufl3). o^t^J ^^iMPO
OOO.r, (V'^jInO) 9y? fjJ ^/K.J
Rainy River: . (•■iiji.iriS) s-AbA u.r, i
Ash Bay (Rainy .I^?iKei:f*kl . s>:jsii,50^000
. ,B?»d VermiliooJUake. ...... .9>l« J j §0.000
it<Burnt Lake ....... .-^.^jg J. -iJiiJii ;. 50,000
(((Height of Land. .lvalue. ...... .9:4b J 30,000
(KKakagi LaHQ . ................ .^AsA. bd '40,900
(.(liipon Lake . • .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 9-Afiti .nojt I5r000
(-tl^atrrow Lake . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 9>Ifi J • s-iir; MMO
(■(Pipestone Lake. .............. .sjfK.l v^ 50,000
i.(Rainy Lake .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 9j/eJ; • o^r. 3,900
,..:Steeprock Lake. ............. .&;ffiv,I /kj.60,QO0
Bergeteoinlialse* . i.JUilT. JLdi.l 5,000
Blackfish Bay 10,000
Center Lake , . hsdiaUiwD- ii^MO.
Cle.ar Lake .... ^^c^j 'yn.fkHtiD '.5^,^00
Crpss Lake • ; .. .^ileri •tifi-d-ADi'i 4^»:000
Diamond Lake^ ^j[q [ 10^000
Gun Lake . . . ' ' . . ' '. '. '. '. ". ". ^j^u^} 10,000
Long Lake (Radcliffe)['.'^j^4io 10.000
Pough Lake -rAti:!- irfjii; ; 15,000
Round Lake (Hagarty) . .j.,h. j 10,000
Round Lake (Lyell) .". ..o>'«f 15,000
Round Lake (Richards)' *>i,tl\ 10.000
Tea Lake' ,j^^i y.. 20,000
Trout Lake ...'...'.'.'.'.... g^g f j., 5,000
Wadsworth Lake '. ". '. '. '. '. '^.v. t ' 10,000
Young Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . .". . 10,000
Simcoe: r^j uooJ-. /
Kempenfeldt Bay ...... .'^ .9>[ii J 135.000
Lake Simcoe , .9As*l qiMMO
. . eilnJ. eoiri<-
Sudbury: l^AgJl vcno/Iof r
Baby Lake . . •. . mV.rV/A .?.>;- -' =5,000
Black Lake . . .(Sa-H:^Sh?.?P'^ ^.1<0,OOO
Cranberry Lake •. .^.^^J. toivl i^-SiOOO
Ella Lake ......... .9^/^^^ .■; -'5,000
Hunter Lake . ........nA-i 5,000
Lake Penage 10,000
Lamothe Lake : 8,000:
Long Lake (Broder). ....... ^j^AnA >:svii§iO0O
Long Lake (Harrow) 4,000
Mesomikenda Lake ,, 16^000;
Nelson Lake . . . . . . . .,,,^j. -,s,^ „ ?#«
\epiwasy Lake ^vjp j iB^'^P^
Raoine Lake V. //.V.V.V/. .f^^^ M'^^
Trout Lake (Cosby) •.-.•. .^'^^^^ .,:,tdD0
Trout Lake (McKiin) .-. .^^^j y.^^^OpO
Wanapitei Lake . '. ". '. '. '. '. '. . ^^^^ j i;^^iJP^
,.. Windermere l^ake'^^^j.-^^^jj^T^ ^^1^000
iMh^y Lake . . . . . . ; . ^^^.^j •^se^^.niW^
Thunder Bay:
,^^,t}i]:geon River
Renfrew:
Bark Lake . ^.
:§ni8eiqi
9;IjU . fi/ii<aOjaO0
,-r":MM<^
J,i ('..r. . 9-AiiJL c
timi^BKaming: ^^j^j ,,
. tAnima Nipissing Lake. ...... .^rffij 9.0,000
Beauty Lake .•••»>.'eJ -u^.OOO
Crystal Lake sjifij -i-. iP^OO
Justine Lake ,. .93ffiJ t. 5,000
Lady Evelyn Lake .......... -arfK.' 20,000
Lake Timagami . , ... . ^ji^.j . ,£.; 100,000
Larder Lake ..... , .. .. .. .. .. .. . srfB.l ?-^>000
Long Lake .......... .^x'Btl- •ff<«>ij;ii.^»000
Matachewan Lake .. .. .. .. .. .. -^tIh. t 5,000
McLeod Lake .. .. .^lUvl- ixx) 500
, Net Lake ........ .. .. .. .; .. .. .. .9'A&A :5»000
Pine Lake .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . ©jlc^I • ©o.^; 5,000
Trout Lake . .^.,'jsJ. .i»offwv»ii//h' . 5,000
Twin Lakes ... .. .. .. /.i .. .9j(bJ. IIj: ^r^iPPO
Wendigo Lake ................... .9>riJ J ij?!*PPO
. 9?!b.I ibsH 9lJ; J
Great Lakes: -rAiiJ. gnu^eoa siJJi.i
Lake Superior . ., .3>J«J. Xv?fi}Il,OB0;0DO
(^IHt) 9 .OVT ?:KIJ][3HAN!NUJ^ KKPORTV019;40-ia:TnA4aa
^
LAKE TROUT— CoHtamiedi I ^ a i iv
Great Lakes — Continued
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron 8ilZLlH/-3Y.
Algoma:
Basswood Lake . . .
Batchawana River .
Big Garden River .
Clear Lake
Deer Lake
^ Huston Lake
Jobammeghia Lake
Ke«gos Lake
Loon Lake
Mississauga River
Montreal River , . . .
North Lake
Rainbow Lake . . . .
Serpent River , . . .
Showshoe Creek . .
Thessalon River . .
'"West Lake ....■..•.-.
00^,^-
r^ai^fblk :
': tlnnamed Streams
85,000
50,000
3,111,000
: Bmo^IA
ifi^iiiDA
RAINBOW TROtJ*
-'r/iR Bw.'BgA
FINGERLINGS ,.'..7 .vr.^
15,000
7,000
. 8,000
4,000
2,000
5,000
20,000
30,000
10,000
..v.... 30,000
...v>'pj vumo
20,000
8,000
10,000
.. . 30,000
' 15,000
^^0
Sudbury: eilBd uodiii^O
^. ,, „» . • ■ ojIbJ 'leinm
, Rapid River -fsstO -i^-S'r
,;S^ndcherry Creel^ .•.•'•i^^m' wolT
, .^ indermere Lalie . ^^^^r^ . ^.^q^j^j
>'.i SJfBj iBall
('00. r
<'!Sauble River q'A&J. egnj rriffJ«2f>0
:•''?,. r . . --■'■ ' '--'-rfiG
I>ti£f6rin: , . .' ^G
"Nottawasaga River . ... MOO
'tHne River ;..vv..;....^vu^ ; 1,500
Elgin: ;j
Ht., Thomas City Re^ertbir.., ^00
)9i0 9in.'
i^^enham River
1,200
Halliburton: ''{
,,Bnrnt Lake 1,200
■Ponds (Caledon Township).. ; MOO
'•\- - ... , . -.i.;.i ,.,v;i]i
Simcoe: rlaJ iVJby.ull
Kempenfeldt Bay v-^'p^X xiBm-g^O
Sturgeon River J'^^^vi. PS.£LJ.ip5 nsbfijf^O
Wellih^ohirio >--T'J05IT <I3J:- ^
Saugeen River . ..... 1,200
beuaiino'J - .
Jm^' 9JlB.i y:
OOfilrhber River isyIH. ojiri?/^ (.1,200
000.'. (9xIoo'i9Q) Ci-AnA :.. ■
]^|s^ellaneous : . ;' "
({Sales — Demonstration :;and
OOOJropagation purposes .... 2,524
OOS.S
002,8
OOOT KAMLOOPS TROUT
OOO.T
YEARLINGS
Bruce :
Gillies Lake
Grey :
Bass Lake '.
Muskoka:
Echo Lake
Red Chalk Lake
Rill Lake
Waseosa Lake
4,000
4,500
5,000
4,000
4,000
2,500
Parry Sound: Mo-iD i
Bernard Lake /ba'iO ;^: 2^00
Poole Lake ^^O'i 0 'loySOO
, : . j1 jfasfO le3
ooo.osi -.' •.:...
(^(■(^8 ATLANTIC SALMON-- '-
ooo.s iL'9'i') >^^;i ■'■ -'
OOO.ca . . .FINGERLING§,i£j ^^i,,^j
000.0 AeerJ vj3-nrj]/.
4*W»a: cj-AfiJ siiVi
Ranger Lake 9,935
Durham :
j^ijj^ilmot Creek
.... jIobiU s nirioTT
FWntenac: '^^oiO snadopjja
*%^ Clear Lake •.;;;:;; J?y?^ ^^^^00
Simcoe: :l;-f:£i-i9(fi;
KeMpenfeldt Bay Aosi'.
... As-nO Yfi
^^(^Uury:
o44i»Jce Penage
(K)0,3i:
000,01
000.01
000. '
00 IV
) ia,s6o
1 i : 'i ' ; J {
15,000
SPECKLED TROUT
PINGERLLXGS
4.)(^6ma :
,,^higan Creek . . .
-jUona Bay Creek
Ji^PA^ndary Lake . .
^^.Brown's Creek . . ,
Harmony Creek . ,
Kashawong Creek
Lake One
Lake Two ;;;;;;.
7,000
7,000
14,000
2,500
3,500
7,000
2,500
2,500
42 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Algoma — Continued
Leslie Lake 7,000
Little White River 14,000
Loon Lake (Deroche) 7,000
McCrea Creek 3,500
Mica Bay Creek 7,000
Pancake River 7,000
Richards Creek 3,500
Two Tree River 3,500
Williams Creek 7,000
Woods Creek 7,000
Durham:
Beatty Creek 7,500
Carscadden Creek 10,500
Muldrews Creek 9,500
Quantreuil Creek 7,500
Roy Mercer Creek 9,500
Trews Creek 7,500
Grey:
Boyd Lake 20,000
Christie Creek 5,000
Copps Lake 20,000
Cotter Creek 7,000
Craig Creek 7,000
Deer Creek 5,000
Eel Creek 10,000
Harrison Lake 20,000
Kreig Lake 8,000
Louisa Creek 5,000
Louisa Lake 35,000
Murray Creek 6,000
Pine Lake 20,000
Nipissing:
Balsam Creek 7,500
Doran's Creek 7,500
Duschene Creek 6,150
North River 7,500
Northumberland :
Big Creek 15,000
Burnley Creek 46,000
Dartford Creek 25,000
Dawson Creek 36,000
DeLong Creek 26,000
Heffernan Creek 10,000
Hortop-Prentice Stream 10,000
Little Cole Creek 15,000
Mills Creek 3,000
O'Grady Creek 20,000
Quinn Creek 6,000
Robin Creek 3,500
Sandy Flats Creek 20,525
Valleau Creek 5,000
West's Creek 5,000
Thunder Bay:
Hensis Lake 2,000
Miscellaneous:
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes
2,200
YEARLINGS
Algoma:
Achigan Lake 4,800
Agawa River 9,600
Alva Lake 1,600
Anjigami Creek 1,600
Aubinadong Bay 3,000
Aubinadong Lake 1,500
Ausburn Lake 1.200
Baker Lake 3,200
Batchawana River 19,200
Beaver Lake (Parkinson) . . 600
Beaver Lake (#2 Tp.) 1,600
Black Lake 1,200
Blue Lake 1,400
Blueberry Lake 1,200
Boyles Creek 1,200
Bridge Lake 1,500
Bulgers Lake 2,400
Bull Lake 1,000
Burns Lake 3,000
Burrough Lake 2,400
Caldwell Lake 800
Camp 2 Lake 2,400
Camp 8 River 3,200
Camp 23 Lake 2,000
Canoe Lake 1,200
Caribou Lake 2,500
Carpenter Lake 4,800
Cedar Creek 2,400
Chiblow River 1,600
Chippewa Creek 31,600
Clear Lake 1,800
Copp Lake 3,200
Cotton Creek 1,000
Crystal Lake 600
Cummings Lake 600
Darriel Lake 1,600
Deer Lake 1,500
Devils Lake 1.200
Dougal Lake 4,800
Driving Creek 3,000
Dunns Creek 3,000
Echo Lake (Grasett) 2,400
Echo Lake (R. 62) 1,350
Eleven Mile Creek 2,400
Elizabeth Lake 1.200
Fern Lake 4,800
Fish Lake 2,300
Foot Lake 1,600
Grassy Lake 1,200
Hamburg Creek 1,600
Harmony Creek 2,700
Harris Creek 800
Hawk Lake 2,400
Hayden Lake 2,400
Herman Lake 4,800
Hidden Portage Lake 4,800
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
43
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Algoma — Continued
High Bank Lake
1,400
1,600
Hoath Lake
Hobon Lake
4,800
Horn Lake
1,600
Horseshoe Lake (1 C.)
1,200
Horseshoe Lake (R. 62)
1,350
Hubert Lake
4,800
Island Lake (McMahon)
3,200
Island Lake (R. 176)
3,000
Jewel Lake
1,600
Jimmie Lake . .
3,200
4,800
Jobammeghia Lake
Karkowan Creek
1,200
Kendogami River
7,200
Lafoe Creek
2,400
Lake One
500
Little Thessalon River
2,400
Little White River
2,400
Lonely Lake
1,200
Long Lake (McDonald)
1,200
Long Lake (R. 168)
1,200
Loon Lake (Near Thessalon)
3,200
Loon Lake (24 R. 13)
1,600
Loon Lake (R. 62)
1,250
Loonskin Lake
4,000
Lower Pine Lake
2,500
Mader Lake
2,400
Mashagama Lake
2,400
Matinenda Lake
1,800
Maude Lake
1,200
Maunshe Megoose Lake
3,200
McCormick Lake
2,400
McKinnon Creek
3,000
McVeigh Creek
2,400
Merchants Lake
2,500
Michipicoten River
9,600
Mile 58 Lake
1,200
Mileage 48 Lake
300
Mongoose Lake
4,800
Montreal River
2,400
Moores Lake
2,400
Moose Lake (Wells)
1,000
Moose Lake (25 R. 13)
4,800
Mountain Lake (Aberdeen)..
1,600
Mountain Lake (Gould)
1,600
Mud Lake
1,600
Newcomb Lake
3,750
Odowbi Lake
1,600
Osborne Creek
4,800
Pine Lake (25 R. 13)
1,600
Pinkney Lake
2,400
Pond Lake
1,200
Prospect Lake
3,200
Rand Lake
1,600
Ranger Lake
500
Rapid River
2,400
Reception Lake
2,400
Red Deer Lake
1,000
Red Rock Lake
1,200
Reed's Creek
1,200
Reserve Lake
Robertson Lake
Rock Lake (Aweres)
Rock Lake (Wells)
Rock Lake (168)
Root River
Rose Marie Lake
Round Lake (Grasett)
Round Lake (Whitman)
Round Lake (1 A.)
Sand Lake Creek
Sand River
Sauble Lake
Sausabic Lake
Saymo Lake
Scarbo Lake
Sharp Sand River
Shumka Lake
Snowshow Creek (188)
Speckled Trout Creek
Speckled Trout Lake (1 A.) . .
Speckled Trout Lake
(28-R-14)
Speckled Trout Lake (176) . .
Spring Creek
Spring Lake (IF.)
Spruce Lake
Stokely Creek
Tamarack Lake
Tawabinasay Lake
Tea Lake (near Thessalon)
Tea Lake (1 A.)
Thessalon River
Tookenay Lake
Triple Lake
Trout Lake (Aweres)
Trout Lake (25 R. 14)
Trout Lake Inlet
Tv/in Lakes (Deroche)
Twin Lakes (IB.)
Twin Lakes (176)
Two Dollar Lake
Upper Pine Lake
Upper Silver Creek
Wallace Lake
Wawa Lake
Wartz Lake
White Creek
White River (2 A.-l B.)
White River (176)
Wolf Lake
Wonashin Lake
Woods Creek
Brant:
Mill Pond
Scotland Creek
Bruce:
Angle Creek ....
Crowes Creek . .
Falconer's Creek
Formosa Pond . .
1,500
3,200
2,000
1,200
1,200
600
2,400
1,200
2,400
1,600
4,800
2,400
4,000
1,200
4,500
1,200
2,400
1,200
1,600
2,400
4,800
3,200
1,500
1,600
1,500
4,800
5,400
2,400
4,800
3,200
800
4,800
2,500
1,600
1,200
2,400
100
1,200
2,000
3,000
800
3,300
500
800
4,800
4,800
1,700
4,000
3,000
900
2,400
1,500
500
500
900
900
200
100
^^ DEPARTMBN/iy OF. laAJk^ JVNIX -FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OFFISH iRLANTEB INiPROVlNGJIAi. WATERS
April 1st, 1940; to Maifcki,91st; ISM'l^.ectitiimed
OOa tSPECKLED TROUT— Coiitlnued
Oeil.C ,.'-■■• ifO;r. :
Bruce — Continued 1 ^tJiswA) sTisd lioon
Judge's Creek . .i^'[Wf). PA^A Jf^^OO
Mullin's Pond ... .i^H) .?HfiA ^^'1r,feOO
Nine Mile Creek •.■.-.•.•.•.. 7?Yi^ ^o<ls400
Silver Creek . . .'Pt^. .9^^py^ 9^^«^a,000
Spring Creek ( AvoiiJ ^.). P.-.-.4 bnuoJioO
Spring Creek (CArrick) ?A^.4 ^ni^^^^feOO
Vogt's Creek . .'. . [i . ?^.-P.I. l:ni;o;]BOO
: 30':0 !?>^nJ f?n:?3
Cochrane: le/iSi bai^H
Bbbs Lake ....... •..-.•. .|?£H..f^^^^'i00
Bristol Creek ....... . .^?^i^ .a^^^^^'i.OOO
Croft Creek :....:::.\^^^^. ^"^'■I^POO
Crooked Creek . . . . .•.;^^.f.^'?^°^'^^^O00
, Dandurant Creek :?::^?^ ,^"'?? .^"^^^^^^^
; EHesco Lake •.;-.:..•./. ?i^A. ^.^^"^'^00
CO
Grassy ]
Groves Lake
^3,,^Fakey Lake .';V'.V.^".r.V^^r.'\°:"^'"^600
^^f ^ass^RTyfr^^ '^^'^'^ ^"^'^'^ ^'^I^^^^^
Tialfway Cr^ek :..*.'
:-::i?(-?-8S)iooo
Hersey^ i:ak4' ?.l^'?.?'f9JT. ^^^^^^'^00
Hooker Creek .::-.:, f?^?P^ snm^-^OO
Horseshoe Lake .^;?.?! .^f?t^ ^^"'''^rooo
^"jacob Creek ..•.•..-..•.•.■ ./.^^^. ^,^7'^i;^500
.., ;jean Lak6 ..•.•.•.•.•.-.•.•.•. f???P, .^t»^'>^:^00
, .Lake of Bays •.-.•.•.•.•, ?^.^.4. ^P.^'^^^'^XOOO
■ Legare Creek ■:.-^/['^^. :^/.^.''.^.'^/^'^'toOO
,^ IX'iniment Lake ';'.'. . :'.\^.".> .??f ^^ ^-^toOO
o Xittle Paradise Cree'k^. Z^- • • v ^^^^LOOO
MacDonald Lake/.-. ??7,!? ".«.^^«f *€oOO
Mountjoy Creek •.•.;. ??^^.4.X^«^;^«%000
..Munro Lake -..;.•.• .^■.•. v.. ^^^^4//'!^'^^^^
^ b|ellie Lake--.J,??^^yi^j.^^?t? "^[^OOO
^^ Red Sucker ltfsfer^,.^9, .^.^,^^, ^"oi^ooo
^'-^-ound Lake ■—:. ??Jf^? .^.^^^^ ^^P^T^BOO
owley CreeW'^.'^^.«,'^.^?> ???*,V «^^^ff000
0(
?.'a'i)* 'aVjffij nMi:i
^^i^ound Lake
. JiShiallspot Creek-. l/ii^V ^^^V "^"^^500
^ ^Watabeag- Lake ;. ^^J}}, ???^,f.J «^''^£ooo
,^^!water Hen Creelc ??^.«^, .T^^jQ ^^''^OOO
^^^Vaterworks Creek ?^^A .^" J "^^Q^IJOOO
X'^?Unnamed- Lake • (mAStm^l^^ T^Qq^tBoo
",?Unnamed- Lake (TisdfiaS^p.f^^^f^^^OOO
om
i>M-:;;::;:::;;:::::2^
Si7BW
OOOQredit RiYer(.a. f^.-A
>ieaTOs.ixI^J^^^
"McAllisters Springjjf^r^e^jj, siiri^f^
f)Nottawasaga River . . . . . ^^jgj jiow^^"
pPower liouse Stfeafri.'jl^.j .^^jj.j^^jj^Y;300
Durham :
)0
Cameron Creek .^^f
^,,^eLong Stream » . . „.. ,^00
\':Garden Hill creek ..-.;.• .•.v?"°^,,"'i'.-000
Lang Creek . . .• .- ." . . . f??}?. P."^^^^-^'qOO
Luxton Creek 1,000
McGill Creek : »^^I,0(JO
'McLaughlin Creek iesiD 9l3na>,300
^''Mercer Creek iUi3.iiy .g9WOT2jl00
C">-Miller Creek 'A99.i3 .3'3»nooIi}M650
00 lOrono Creek baoH. .Raofmdlii200
Rabbin; Greek T.lOaT. .(I -Ua.) J 'I'' 1,200
Smith Creek 1,000
Sowden Creek J)3JiaUxiaO — Bmo;g5(K)
OOlSpwper Stream ,.,...• ^.+)»J.:rfHfia xfiiifpOO
OO.Sfluirrel Creek .....,.., .^rfc^i tim^MOO
OoThompson Creek ....... .«^>[fij. noaoI^OO
ti'.Tyrone Creek ,.••••• -r-.ir.d in^^^O
n!j<_U'nnamed streams jn Ma:nvQi)Si;D.^vioH
(;^i;;. and Darlington; i tovf^afaifi^i^s ^idiJpSO
(vYdrtues Creek ........ . . ,. ,; . • o^frrP^OO
'>0a.. ,!offiiL'> .:, 9/IbJ bncial
•JPi^ohtenac : . {0\L M) djCbJ biiBlal
'^•^'■felack Creek ..-.•.•.•.•.•.•.•. /l^^":^ .^^'^11200
^ ;Pamp Lake ...'...;.
;*J 'eini.i;
800
!,Chambers Lake
>rj'.viO 11 — '■■■ ■
J^^^rindstone Lake
'ijittle Mississippi v.^-. ... -i^v/v
tLucky Lake ......... .\?^7? »^ 1^00
i'lyiackie Lake . ..,.\ ....:. PP^ '^' iJeOO
' *1V!cCausland Lake '. i^/^-'^^'^A- ^^-9,600
""Reid Lake ....... V.^^..'^V.V/ ^"^ l.«00
Rock Lake . .;.•.■.•.•/.•.•, P:A^J. '''^'^' ' 2^^00
Sand Lake . . il^".«.V?.|;l . ?r.V '-^''1,'600
Schooner hake ^M^. .rA .'l^J.^i^ J^-^" 2:400
Sharbot Creek' ^C^.\ X?? ^^-^ M'1^ "^^'S^OOO
Star Lake ..:F\\:'^.}.').P:M^^ ^'^'"2,-400
Trout Lake . .-. .'rA .-P. \ . VH.V "^^'^^200
,Unnamed lakes- in- MilW nrjlRnooJ
'•''■; - township ■..•.•.-.•. ??-.M .^.«'.1 i9'>'olrj000
'■ • o>IbJ lebrA:.
U^- . "i'AsiJ BmB^BffaBl/:
S^^^y- rrAiU BbironiJsT/I
:^' .Bass Lake .......... ..... ... •.f:iisj[. a:)i;.4/i"00
, vB^atty Saug^efi^i i^y^r^^^M- srlsnui'M^^
00 {Reaver River. ..... .^y'ntV 'A-jimiolW^^
00(>P!ell Lake ................ .j?9.j73- nonni>l4'200
OOlvpig Head . River . . .j(.„,9. .rf3i97.)7/200
OOil^lack's. Beach ...... .^^^j. •3>nBrian4^<><>
OOOBjlack Creek ...... ^^^yj •n3>o-jlqfd:)ife?0^
OOSPloyd Lake. .. ........ .....^rfa J. ^^, elif^^^
OorJBoyne Ri.v.er .......... ^jf^^^. g^. ^3^90^/600
0;^mp Creek ........ .^^^^. 3^^031
Oo^sema.n .Creek ... -r^vtfl • fcaiinol
Oo^(lhristie .Creek .........-.•.• sif-sd • ESioot/^^^
OOOQiiristie .Lake .. <af[^v^)- s^fsJ 9POof^$2n
OoaQolter .Creek (^i.,^.^^^y ^-itsA eeooK^^^^
Oo;)Qraig Creek^ Wi/oO) -arfuLl -nrBtniror/i???
Eel Creek- ..;.•.•.;. .^^I'^V il'T^f '^^SOO
Ferguson Cree^ •.•.•.•...'! .^^. ."^^f ^450
^irth Creek :^:,::JSll9.,V\''^^fM0
[leasort Creek' ^f .?. .^.\l .»^l?'^ --21700
rth Creek .-.::-:L:?^?:;t'i-»^^:sooo
- > 9
arbottle Creek- •..•. .n^^X .Y^ciifir igso
[ay ward Fails •.•.-.•.•.•.•.•. .^.^^-} ^>"'^ ^500
'^'^■'Hydro Creek -.-.•.•..•.>.>( ^4. .J?9qsoT8]400
' ' ^Lamont Greek • .• .• .• .- .- .. .- . .^Jf « J b ri r.lJOOO
'"Lawrence Creek .......3>l6J. .i^""^ '450
'"'Louise Creek 'tav.iH b;r: -'(600
' -Lueck's Mill Pond ^jIkJ. «aiicc 1,800
HjuMacLean's Lake ....... >)^«^I .-^'^eCl f '500
' ' ::Manx River . . . .. . . oiU\I . ricoH [^ -ItSOO
0')i:McConneU Creek . :499i3. z'bj^i^^^
(S^ei) e .c7[ ^3.ui^H^x^nWA^■K^PbK%>lT4^-^41^^1^^^:i(l '4^
SPECIES ANO :aUA;NTIITaiES OP FXSH riPILAN^EB: IN iBICOLVilNeiAL WATERS
SPECKLED TROUT^Cantmueiba
■■ ■ - ...^a
Orey — Continued 'jiinJi. jasli st^'
' M«Gowan Dam •. . •. •. JVA^. ^?^^ Si^goo
'''Meino Stream .-.% -.v. •.-.•. -..^^^f J '^'15,800
"* Mitchell Pond . •. •. ■. •. •. •. . '/^Y 1? >^^«^ tOO
^0%funshaw Lakel'V^n^. M^M^^ ^-- 400
'Murray Creek .'.'',% ^'H ^9.'. ?M^ 'f^'- 300
North Louise LdfefeP^l^i.P.^A'J^ i^"' ^00
Nuhn Pond . . . ;'.^J?P/S). djibJ iBti 400
' Oxenden Creek . . . . -. . ?A^A . 8'i9<I<^"2',400
^'^•^tiddle Spring Creek- .4?^7? T^'^SOO
''"ilt)cky Saugeen River . . . ?A^A <T 13,800
Skugeen River . . . . . •. •. •• . . r^t^-^ >15,000
Spey River .....•.•.-.•.•.•.•. .^^t^ ^^^1,800
Spring Creek- ■.:■..■.'.■. A^^^. ?^^^^^^ijOOO
' Styx River • . •. •. •. •. •. •. •. -. -. •. . sj^.^.a od;i3oO
"Sydenham Rird^'t^iV. I\«fi. PXV Xi20,800
Tannery Creek' ?V'^nJ M^.^^'^J ^i^OOO
"'Williams Lake -.•..•.•.•. .Q^fM i^^^^^^t^OO
''^'^oungs Lake .•..-.•.•.•..•.•.•. M^J li '2,200
"Oi-'C sjIbJ. ilcBli
mijburton: t?V u^^l^r
;,, JBear Creek •'%PT9-8qorv+j200
, , Blue Lake; V-V-V-V-V./^vwa-lo d^h JOO
...Burnt River ...... .^3vra-*i?!sa 9I rP^^
.:Clear Lake
'{ilsffirn?3) 'eUGd srr
u?'|500
,£ranberry Lak^.^^^^^r^) . ^.^.^j ^,,0 «00
K-Crozier Lake . -(^ur^irim 'sAb.! ?a.M22
.grag River , ,,.,.,,,., ^^.j «,,^1,J00
.gagle Lake _ River ^^^^-r^j.^^^j „,
600
^st Lake; •'.V-.'-V.j.j-fjnO^BJ no<
;,3,600
„.,@etcher Lake; '/r/^^^r'^^^^ainS^
ori^*dden Creek ..... .^^^■,^. sAoHsulM^^
00!^«n Lake ... .^^g. ^^,,^^. .^,j^j,jgj4|00
Oo^^arvey Ij^^^^^j,^ -ftnc-e^fB-J •Lioln^.^^J
Oo;gq and Creek ...... . • ^^irgi^,rnl^:200
.,;.go ow Lake ,,..,,.,... .^^j^j ^^^j
•M.^Sollow River ,.,.,.. .^^^^. .^ ^,^^,
OO^an Lake ........... 33J3J ,^
Oo^^^g^.^/. Lake .... .^^^^. ^^^^^^
„0(§mball Lake .... .g^j^j. .^j.^^^ j,^
„o;iV|.cCue. Creek ^5j^j jj^
O.^Ulichamp Lake . ^^^j ^^
oo^^untain Lake tribut^gsj -nojalai^^^
Oo#)long mVer- . .•.•.;.•. ^^^^^ .^^^^^^^ --
rM,:Atter Lake .,,.,. . .^^^^ .^.^j^^ji,
ooP^tongue Lake ,,, .^^^.j. .^^^^ ^jj.
no^Penn Lake aifjBd- sni~
online Lake-.^-^,3.-^-.^^j.3,j.j^ 991?!^^,^
,nedstona:.WHH) -bnn- ^7^ffJ• nofiT'?^!??
,,.;f^pund Lake
"^TiBLi '68093 6
00
t&lipper Lake .'.■.'.■.*. . . . . .-^-. t Vfnvi^OO
Stormy Creek ' •.•.•.•.•.-.•.•.•. .!?f^ ^^^ ^^00
Twin Lakes . . .
9>(sJ 8urfJni5oA
^" I
^^«^^»gs: 3,^^j eol xd£a
'>:^aptiste Lake .,., .9iIfi.L T9VB*aB00
^.O^ferrager. Lake . .. .^AbJ, .xn^alxja s2si)00
BsWAirfltiieifeefi lOHT. .(IXJH3:i*I81,200
Bob Whyte Lake 800
Brett Lake : Ai^i^H
Buck Lake . . , , , .. , , , .. .. . gji^i 9 luJ^OO
Byers Lake ................... .-rfesqO si/iisPOO
Cannon Lake. .... .>t99'40. .^>{bJ rio9-^00
Canoe Lake , . ..... .519919.9 hS ^jjic^OO
Cockburn Creek .......... jfee^o [fjjj<#00
Deer River 8,000
Devil Lake *1,600
■^3l6J* 'aebiiii
Diamond Lake ..
Douglas Creek ..
Echo Lake .-,.,. .
Egan Creek -.".^.ISO'^jA-zoii
Fraser Creek •. •. . •. •. •. •. -. •. .^^^l^ tb^^oq
\Fraser Lake . •. . •. •. . •. . M^X^. . is'^fil^feOO
' Geen Creek ..-.•.•.•..•.•.•. .?#vl « wo 1^00
' Ooudy Creek • •. •. -. •. . .^^A^.^Q . JodajIoii^oO
' Green Lake ..■.■.■....■.■.'. M^4 J^niiS^OO
Kineses Lake . . •. •. •. •. •. M^4. isnn(i:^00
Jardison Lake ...... aA^4. PP^'^ -i^OO
■battle Lighthouse Lake ^A^^ ^oi^OO
'^^fittle Mississippi River .^.^.^.'J. ^^^00
^^Sng Lake (Bangor) .^^§^^. ,«^"^?;
Long Lake (Hershel) . . ?r,^A, -"^^^ ^
::5viud Lake .............. .^J^L^i^
;;,^u^ Turtle Lak^V.V.V^-^^^1
. .Oxbow Lake s^u'j ^«r'
,„Papineau Creek; ;.B:jtfiJ-}ooi^9riil^£
M.Potter l^^^e ••('■t.j^nM^yBitnJL -gnc^^
O^Rainy l^a^e ..^r^j^^^^y.^^^ -nJ?^^
o€^wdon Cre^^BrfgKiyiQ>.9jfBa ^nM^^
(Roses LakQ .......... .93{£j. .ekaai-Io'^^POO
.'Shire Creek .9j(bJ. .^cioIfB^/SOO
uOSilent Lake ajTuJ. nsJi^DOO
■: o.-Biiver Lake . (lOj^xiidA). .sjIbJ jfocajlOO
"*'^quire Creek CrlatcTntja.). aM^J. AooS^OO
•'•^^oney -LakeMtWl.3aia:ta). AJ{«J ^y<fi',a00
■■%ea Lake- .•.•.•.....•.-.•.•.•... .9?i^4 89«oi^00
' '"Adders Lake- •.•.•.•.•.-.•.•. .4?nQ. leniil^oO
" '^^illiams Lake- •.•.•.•.•.•.-.•. AA^4 d^in^OO
;*;; V^tes Lake- .■.:■.. -.-.y.^^flj ^^^f^OO
r*(+a- 89MbJ nfvyT
on :
''''^'rmstrohg' Drain Cffefek^?.^.^ ^^^^^'^^350
Belgrave Creek , ,1,
Bolt Drain Creek [nHuoJitt
*;">i:aitland River- •.-. .^??7?. .Xf^oiasfafi
^'''kiddleton Creek •.•.-.•••. .J??*?? "^v--
Murray Creek y.v.^^.V.^.X'^^. ^"SoO
•Redden Ci-eek^'?^^?. ?^^^. ^fn;^o?-
Wine rrPPk ^^''-^ n99Msf^
OiMppring ureeK }T5iJio q^bI:
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Dryberry River 2,000
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On;Btlver Lake ........ .. .. .. .^dsiO 93?/p00
46
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES Nq. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
Apri-1 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Lanark:
Bottle Lake 500
Craig Creek 750
Green Lake Creek 750
Long Sue Creek 1,500
Paul Creek 3,200
Leeds:
Camden Lake 600
Lennox-Addington :
Bear Creek 1,000
Beaver Creek 4,800
Brown Lake 3,600
Buckshot Creek 2,400
Burns Lake 2,400
Conner Lake 2,400
Copeland Lake 2,400
Dafoe Lake 2,400
East Lake 2,400
Feeny's Lake 1,000
Flake Lake 800
Green Lake 5,400
Hyde Creek 3,200
Kilborn Lake 1,600
King Lake 4,800
Leather-root Lake 800
Long Lake (Abinger) 600
Long Lake (Ashby) 2,400
Long Lake (Effingham) . . . 1,200
MacKenzie Lake 1,200
Mallory Lake 1,600
Ratten Lake 4,800
Rock Lake (Abinger) 1,600
Rock Lake (Denbigh) 800
Rock Lake (Effingham) 2,400
Roses Lake 800
Shiner Creek 1,200
Smith Lake 2,400
Snake Creek 3,000
Thirty Island Lake 2,400
Twin Lakes 600
White Lake 4,800
Manitoulin :
Badgerow Creek 6,000
Barr Creek 3,000
Blue Jay Creek 25,000
Bonnie Doone Creek 2,000
Eighteen Lake 2,000
Hare Creek 1,000
Kagawong River 1,000
Manitou River 25,000
Mindemoya River 20,000
Norton Creek 7,000
Silver Creek 6,000
Spring Bay Creek 9,000
Srigley Creek 5,000
Muskoka:
Axe Creek 3,600
Beaver Creek 3,600
Bella Lake 7,200
Big East Lake 3,600
Big East River 32,600
Bird Lake 3,600
Black River 7,200
Buck Lake and tributaries . . - 7,200
Clear Lake (Oakley) 2,400
Clear Lake (Ridout) 3,200
Clear Lake (Sinclair) 2,400
Coopers Lake 3,600
Daley Creek 1,800
Deep Lake 1,800
Dog Lake 1,800
Dotty Lake 1,800
Eastails Lake 1,200
Echo Lake 13,200
Fairy Lake and tributaries . . 13,200
Fox Lake and tributaries . . 10,000
Eraser Lake 800
Gull Lake 3,200
Heck Lake 3,600
Helva Lake 1,800
Island Lake 1,600
Jessops Creek 1,800
Lake of Bays 9,000
Little East River 23,200
Long Lake (Cardwell) 2,400
Long Lake (Chaffey) 1,800
Long Lake (Ridout) 1,600
Loon Lake 3,600
Loon Lake Creek 3,600
Loon Lake Outlet 1,800
Martin Lake 2,400
Mud Lake 1,800
Muskoka River 26,400
Muskoka River Bay 3,200
Penfold Lake and tributaries 3,600
Peninsula Lake and
tributaries 19,600
Pine Lake 2,400
Poverty Lake 1.800
Rat Lake 3,600
Rebecca Lake 7,200
Red Chalk Lake 6,000
Rill Lake 4,800
Rosseau Lake Bay 1,200
Shoe Lake 3,200
Skeleton Lake 6,200
Skeleton River 4,000
Solitaire Lake 3,600
Split Rock Lake 1,800
Spring Lake 2,400
Three Mile Lake Creek 800
Turtle Lake 3,600
Vernon Lake and tributaries 19,600
Waseosa Lake . . : 3.600
Wolf Lake 2,400
Nipissing:
Acanthus Lake 1,000
Baby Joe Lake 500
Beaver Lake 350
Big Balsam Lake 1,500
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
47
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Nipissing — Continued
Big Mink Lake 1,400
Big Spring Lake 3,500
Birch Lake 250
Blue Lake 1,500
Blueberry Lake 2,100
Bonanza Lake 250
Bonnechere River 1,000
Brock River 1,200
Broom Lake 1,000
Brule Lake 500
Buck Lake 500
Burnt Island Lake 2,000
Cache Lake 3,000
Camp Lake 1,200
Canisbay Lake 500
Canoe Lake (Peck) 2,000
Canoe Lake (Widdifield) ... 1,400
Carcajou Lake 500
Carney Lake 1,500
Cauchon Lake 850
Cedar Lake 1,000
Clear Lake (Boulter) 1,000
Clear Lake (Chambers) 1,000
Clear Lake (Gladman) 1,400
Clear Lake (Notman) 1,400
Clearwater Lake (Pentland) . 1,000
Coon Lake 500
Crooked Lake 2,800
Cutler Lake 2,100
Daly Lake 500
Desrochers Lake 250
Devils Lake 1,000
Duchesne Creek 1,500
Eighty Acre Lake 1,500
Ethel Lake 2,100
Eva Lake 1,400
Finlayson Lake 3,500
Four Mile Creek 7,000
Foirney Lake 2,400
Galeairy Lake 2,000
Gauthier Lake 1,000
Gilmour Lake 1,000
Gooderham Lake 3,500
Grand Lake 1,000
Green Lake 500
Head Lake 500
Jacks Lake 250
James Creek 1,500
Jimmie Lake 1,200
Jocko River 7,500
Joe Lake 1,000
Kioshkoqui Lake 1,000
Koko Lake 7,750
L'Amable Creek 500
Latrey Lake 3,500
Laveille Creek 500
Little Island Lake 1,000
Little Madawaska Lake .... 500
Little McAuley Lake 500
Little Mink Lake 1,400
Little Otter Lake 1,400
Little Trout Lake
Long Lake
Long Spur Lake
Madawaska River
Magee Creek
Mcintosh Lake
Moon Lake
Moose Lake
Mosquito Creek
Mountain Lake
Muskosung Lake Stream .
Noble Creek
North Lake
North River
Opeongo Lake
Opinicon Creek
Oxtongue River
Petawawa River
Price Lake
Ravineau Lake
Robitaille Lake
Round Lake
St. Andrew Lake
Shanty Lake
Shirley Lake
Snake Lake
Source Lake
South Tea Lake
Speckled Trout Lake
Spring Lake (Gooderham)
Spring Lake (Sisk)
Sproule Lake
Stoney Creek
Sundash Lake
Sunday Lake
Tanamakoon Lake
Trout Lake (Parkman) . .
Turtle Lake
Twenty Minute Lake
Two Rivers Lake
Unnamed Lake (Niven) . .
Unnamed Lake (White) ...
Welcome Lake
Whitefish Lake
Norfolk:
Kent Creek
Mineral Creek
Trout Creek
Northumberland:
Baltimore Creek
Burnley Creek
Cavan Stream
Chidley Creek
Dartford Creek
Dawson Creek
DeLong Creek
Duncan Creek
Lakeport Creek
Mill Creek
Mount Pleasant Stream . . .
O'Grady Creek
250
2,000
250
500
1,200
1,500
3,000
1,000
3,000
1,000
100
350
750
6,507
3,000
3,500
3,000
500
3,500
500
500
500
1,000
1,000
500
2,000
1,000
1,000
500
2,100
3,000
250
1,400
250
250
1,000
2,700
1,000
5,100
2,000
250
250
1,000
1,000
1,200
500
600
4,900
2,400
8,600
1,300
1,600
3,000
800
800
1,500
800
4,200
2,400
48
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Northumberland — Continued
Pegman Creek
Quinn Creek
Robin Creek
Sandy Flats Creek
Valleau Creek
Ontario:
Bickle Creek
Black Creek
Elgin Park Pond
McLean Creek
Thompson's Spring Creek . .
Parry Sound:
Barrett Creek
Barton Creek
Bernard Lake
Big Clam Lake
Big Loon Lake
Black Creek (Guid)
Black Creek (Strong)
Black Lake
Bradford Creek
Cacheman Creek
Cheer Lake
Clear Lake (Armour)
Clear Lake (Laurier)
Clear Lake (Perry)
Clear Lake Creek
Crozier Lake
Cummings Lake
Darlington Lake
Deer Lake
Deer Lake Creek
Depot Creek
Distress River
Eagle Lake
East Creek
Edgecombe Creek
Fagan Creek
Fisher Lake
Fleming Lake
Forest Lake
Forsythe Lake
Franks Lake
Genesee Lake
Gull Lake
Ham Lake
Hammel Creek
Happy Lake Creek
Horn Lake
Island Lake Creek
Jack's Lake Creek
James Creek
Jordon Creek
Little Lake
Little Pickerel Lake
Long Lake (Perry)
Lynx Lake
Madill Creek
3,400
1,600
800
1,600
800
1,500
600
600
1,000
2,000
3,000
2,800
2,800
1,000
1,500
1,000
1,400
3,600
1,000
1,500
1,400
900
1,000
1,000
500
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,250
500
1,400
2,800
2,800
1,200
1,400
1,300
1,500
1,400
1,400
500
500
3,000
2,100
2,800
500
1,200
1,000
1,000
1,000
2,000
2,000
500
2,500
5,800
1,000
500
Maganetawan River 14,100
McCullough Creek 2,800
McQuoid Lake 1,000
Otter Lake 1,400
Owl Lake 500
Paisley Lake 1,400
Poole Lake 1,400
Ragged Creek 1,500
Rat Lake 1,250
Rock Lake 1,200
Round Lake 500
Roussell Creek 800
Sand Lake (Ballantyne) ... 700
Sand Lake (Proudfoot) 1,500
Seguin River 1,500
Shadow River 1,200
Shells Lake 500
Smith Creek 2,800
Stewart Creek 1,000
Stirling River 2,400
Surprise Lake 2,500
Tee Lake Creek 500
Three Mile Creek 500
Three Mile Lake 1,900
Williams Lake 1,500
Peel:
Credit River 6,200
Smith Creek 1.200
Watson Creek 1,200
Perth:
Avon River 1,500
Fullerton Creek 500
McKnight Stream 1,500
Peterborough:
Archer Creek 200
Big Ouse River 8,400
Birdsall Creek 3,200
Buchanan Creek 3,200
Carvers Creek 2,800
Cavan Stream 8,000
Deer Bay Creek 3,200
Deer River 1,200
Dunbar Creek 1,600
Eel Creek 8,600
Harding's Creek 800
Jack's Creek 3,200
Little Ouse River 5,400
Mlllbrook Stream 1,000
Mississauga River 6,400
Mount Pleasant Stream 3,200
Plateau Creek 8,250
Sophies Creek 1,000
Renfrew:
Angling Lake 800
Annie Lake 1.500
Barry Lake 800
Battery Lake 500
Bear Lake 2,500
Belanger Lake 800
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
49
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF PISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Renfrew — Continued
Bergeron Lake 1,000
Big Round Lake 1,000
Bissett Creek 3,000
Black Lake 2,000
Black Donald Lake 1,000
Brennan Creek 1,000
Burns Lake 3,000
Byers Creek 3,000
Clarkes Creek 1,000
Cochrane Creek 4,200
Colton Creek (Admaston) . . 500
Colton Lake 3,500
Constant Creek 1,500
Costello Creek 1,000
Coulton Creek (Matawatchan) 1,500
Cranberry Lake 1,000
Crooked Lake Creek 1,000
Cross Lake 3,000
Crotch Lake 1,000
Crozier Creek 3,500
Deer Lake 1,500
Deux Rivieres Creek 1,500
Devils Lake Creek 1,000
Diamond Lake Creek 1,000
Dodge Lake 500
Dominic Lake 2,000
Elmer Lake 800
Finley Creek 1,000
Gardez Pieds Creek 1,000
Geen Lake 1,000
Grant Creek 1,250
Greenan Lake 1,500
Hamwolds Creek 1,000
Hart Lake 1,000
Harvey Creek 1,000
Helmers Lake 1,000
Heney Creek 1,250
Hughey Lake 1,000
Indian River 4,000
Jerry Lake 500
Josie Creek 1,000
Kelly Lake Creek 1,000
Leckie Creek 1,000
Little Madawaska River 3,000
Little Mason Lake 200
Little Spring Creek 250
Locksley Creek 1,000
Long Lake (Lyell) 2,000
Long Lake Creek (Griffith) 1,000
MacKay Creek 1,000
Mares Lake 500
McCool Lake 1,000
McDermid Creek 1,000
Nadeau Creek 500
Paugh Lake 3,00^
Pichette Creek 500
Quadville Creek 1,000
Red Pine Lake 500
Rockingham Creek 3,000
Rocky Lake 2,500
Round Lake and Creek .... 1,300
Schaven Lake 500
School Creek 500
Scott Creek 1,000
Siroski Creek 1,200
Smith Creek 1,000
Snake Creek 1,000
Spring Creek 1,000
Stewart Creek 1,000
Sullivan Lake 1,200
Toohey Lake 1,500
Trout Lake (Head) 1,000
Trout Lake (Raglan) 1,000
Tucker Creek 1,200
Turner Creek 1,000
Twin Lakes 4,500
Unnamed Lakes (Vicinity of
Griffith) 1,200
Wadsworth Creek 500
Wendigo Lake 3,000
White Lake Creek 250
Wylie Creek 4,000
Zielany Lake 1,500
Simcoe:
Black River 1,000
Boyne River 3,000
Colwell Creek 1,000
Hill Creek 1.000
Mathewson Creek 3,000
Willow Creek 1,500
Sudbury:
Austin Lake 3,000
Awry Creek 10,000
Bailey Creek 15,000
Bertrand Creek 7,500
Clear Lake 15,000
Clearwater Lake Creek .... 15,000
Cold Spring Creek 10,000
Coniston Creek 17,500
Crystal Lake 5,000
Devil Lake Creek 10,000
Dublin Creek 500
Ella Lake 7,500
Emery Creek 10,000
Fairbank Creek 10,000
Farm Lake 5,000
Fournier Creek 15,000
Fox Lake 1,250
Garson Creek 6,000
Geneva Creek 15,000
Goodwins Lake 4,500
Green Lake 10,000
Hunter Creek 1,000
Johns Creek 30,000
Johnston Creek 10,000
Junction Creek 7,500
Karl Creek 4,000
Landlocked Lake 1,250
McLanders Creek 15,000
McLeod Creek 7,500
Nelson River 8,000
Post Creek 4,000
50
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES Nq. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Sudbury— Continued
Poulin Creek 15,000
Pumphouse Creek 30,000
Rapid River 15,000
Rock Lake 2,000
Round Lake 500
Round Lake (Borden) 10,000
Sandcherry Creek 10,000
Sauble River 45,000
Second Lake 3,000
Shoal Lake Creek 1,000
Spring Creek 10,000
Sprout Creek 15,000
Storehouse Creek 2,000
Trout Lake 3,000
Trout Lake Creek 6,000
Unnamed Lake (Hoskin Tp.) 2,000
Unnamed Lake (Morgan) . . 17,500
Veuve River 30,000
Waddell Creek 7,500
Wanapitei Lake 10,000
Wavy Creek 10,000
West Lake 2,500
Windy Creek 20,000
Thunder Bay:
Ada Lake 1,000
Alt Lake 2,000
Anderson Lake 3,000
Anne Lake 1,000
Arnold Creek 3,000
Arrow River 4,000
Bass Creek 6,000
Bat Lake 5,000
Bear Lake 1,750
Bear Trap Lake 6,850
Beaver Dam Creek 4,800
Big Duck Lake 3,000
Billy Creek 4,500
Birch Grove Lake 1,500
Bishop Lake 1,500
Blend Creek 4,000
Bluff Lake 2,000
Brule Creek 10,000
Buckaday Lake 3,000
Cavern Creek 1,500
Cavern Lake 2,600
Cedar Creek 25,000
Charlotte Lake 4,800
Coldwater River 20,300
Corbett Creek 5,000
Cousineau Dam 5,000
Couture Lake 1,500
Current River 20,000
Dan's Lake 1,200
Dublin Lake Creek 500
Fall Lake 2,000
Fire Lake 2,000
Firesteel River 5,000
Florence Lake 1,500
Eraser Creek 6,000
Golden Gate Lake 1,000
Grassy Lake 4,000
Gravel River 13^200
Half Moon Lake 3,000
Hay Lake 2^500
Hazelwood Creek 7,000
Hogan Lake 2^000
Hornblende Lake 1,200
Indian Lake 1,000
Inwood Lake 1,250
Island Lake 3,000
Jackpine River 4,000
Jim's Lake 2,000
Kaministiquia Lake 5,000
Knobel Lake 5,100
Krumle' Lake 5,800
Langley's Creek 2,000
Le Sarge Lake 2,000
Little Lake 1,200
Little Partridge Lake 2,400
Little Whitefish River 3,000
Loftquist Lake 15,000
Loon Lake 23,000
Lost Lake 2,400
Love Island Lake 1,200
Lower Pass Lake 6,000
Lukinto Lake 2,000
Lynx Lake 1,800
Maggot River 4,400
Mclntyre Creek 7,000
Mclntyre River 6,000
McKenzie River 4,000
McLean Creek 2,400
McVicar Creek 4,000
Mine Lake 4,200
Mink Lake 3,600
Mirror Lake 3,000
Moose Creek 2,000
Moose Lake 3,500
Mountain Lake 4,000
Neebing River 17,800
Nipigon River 55,600
Nishin Lake 9,650
Oliver Lake 7,000
One Isle Lake 1,000
Ozone Creek 4,750
Park Lake 4,000
Parsons Lake 2,900
Partridge Lake 4,900
Pass Lake 5,000
Peach Lake 4,200
Pearl River 15.000
Pitch Creek 18,400
Rainbow Lake 2,000
Range Lake 1,200
Reed Lake 2,000
Ring Lake 1,000
Ringer Lake 1,000
Rope Lake 4,000
Ross Lake 2,400
Selim River 2,000
Setting Duck Lake 3,000
Shoepack Lake 3,600
Silver Creek 2,000
Silver Islet Creek 2,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
51
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continned
Thunder Bay — Continued
Spar Lake 2,000
Spring Creek (Dorion) 8,700
Spring Lake (Leduc) 7,000
Squaw Creek 4,000
Star Lake 2,000
Stillwater Creek 1,000
Strawberry Creek 7,000
Sturgeon River 2,000
Surprise Lake 4,000
Three Mile Lake 3,000
Tomlinson Lake 1,250
Trout Creek (Lyon) 4,000
Trout Creek (McTavish) . . : 700
Trout Creek (Nipigon) 2,000
Trout Lake (Gorham, etc.) . . 26,000
Trout Lake (Stirling) .... 22,000
Tujack Lake 2,000
Twin Lakes 5,500
Uncle Tom's Lake 2,400
Unnamed Creek (Dorion) . . 1,000
Unnamed Lake (Eva) 2,000
L^pper Pass Lake 6,000
Wabasta Lake 3,000
Walker Lake 8,150
Vv^hitefish River 8,000
Whitewood Creek 1^,600
Wideman Lake 3,000
Timiskaming:
Belle Isle Lake 1,200
Boston Creek 1,000
Butler Lake 1,000
Charlotte Lake 2,000
Crooked Creek 1,000
Crystal Lake (Bayly) 1,500
Crystal Lake (Lebel) 2,000
Emerald Lake 2,400
Fairy Lake 1,000
Gleason Creek 1,200
Graham Creek 1,500
Jean Baptiste Lake . 1,000
Largreaves Lake 1,000
Latour Creek 1,200
Leacock Creek 1,000
Little Otter Lake 1,500
Loon Lake 1,200
Mearow Lake 1,000
Moffat Creek 1,000
Mousseau Lake 1,000
Pike Creek 1,200
St. Anthony Creek 1,000
Sink Hole Lake 500
Spring Creek 1,200
Spring Lake 3,000
Stock Lake 2,000
Twin Lakes 3,000
Wahi Creek 1,000
Wapoose Creek 500
Welcome Lake 1,000
Victoria:
Corbin Creek
200
Crego Creek
1,600
1,500
Union Creek
Waterloo:
Bamburg Stream
Elora Creek
2,400
2,000
1,200
600
Erbsville Creek
Mannheim Creek
Wellington:
Bell's Creek
900
Credit River
Mallot's Creek
O'Dwyer's Creek
Ospring Creek
Saugeen River
Stanley Park Stream
1,200
500
300
600
1,200
300
York:
Doan's Pond
300
Miscellaneous: qjIuJ. r
Sales — Demonstration and
propagation purposes
13,207
ADULTS
Algoma:
Garden River
Heyden Lake
Lower Island Lake
Root River
Upper Island Lake
1,000
400
350
4,650
750
WHITEFISH FRY
Kenora:
Eagle Lake 1,000,000
Portage Bay 2,000,000
Separation Lake 500,000
Lake of the Woods 35,105,000
Manitoulin:
Lake Manitowaning 1,000,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of .Quinte 89,000,000
Rainy River:
Rainy Lake 28,000,000
Simcoe:
Lake Simcoe 1,500,000
Thunder Bay:
Lake Nipigon 500,000
52 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1940, to March 31st, 1941— Continued
WHITEFISH FRY— Continued
Great Lakes:
Lake Superior 15,750,000
North Channel 23,040,000
Georgian Bay 62,322,000
Lake Huron 43,460,000
Lake Erie 91,912,000
Lake Ontario 8,250,000
HERRING FRY
Frontenac:
Brule Lake 300,000
Camp Lake 200,000
Haliburton:
Drag Lake 250,000
Spruce Lake 250,000
Hastings:
Salmon Lake 250,000
Weslemkoon Lake 350,000
Lanark:
Dalhousie Lake 250,000
Leeds :
Rideau Lake 750,000
Lennox-Addington :
Little Weslemkoon Lake . . . 100,000
Otter Lake 200,000
White Lake 100,000
Peterborough:
Jack's Lake 250,000
Trout Lake 250,000
Prince Edward:
Bay of Quinte 2,900,000
Simcoe:
Nottawasaga Bay 7,750,000
Sudbury:
Windy Lake 500,000
Great Lakes:
North Channel 1,500,000
Georgian Bay 1,000,000
Lake Erie .* 29,650,000
Lake Ontario 2,250,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
53
APPENDIX No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES— 1936 TO 1940, INCLUSIVE
liarge-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Finger lings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinonge
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch — Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fit
Adults
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry
Brown Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Rainbow Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
Whitefish
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Herrins:
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Miscellaneous
1936
45.000
780,000
69,380
5.202
274.000
46,080.000
2.000.000
300.759,500
147,050
7,290
3.209,400
4.165.000
Fry
Fingerlings 18,253.244
Atlantic Salmon
Fry
133,000
3,507
1937
28.600
182,000
1.053.050
557.270
6,081
112.500
428,402,000
TOTALS
56,120,000
135,000
4,120
92
1.275.000
141,900
5.893
420.700
9.150,000
2,000,000
263,743,400
1.000,000
97,484
3,225.000
4.667.000
15,782.350
1938
1939
862.401,472
7.200
105,240
80,000
384,725
1,167.073
16,150
4,000.000
383.683.900
30,000
5,270.000
3.053
696,395,280
57.500
8,061
804,000
169,800
7,738
2,005,000
59.150.000
2.012.500
271.567.500
500.000
59.592*
2.437.000
7.665,000
10.575,200
4,800
321.600
6.727
25.821
1.000
"37V, 314
2,083,538
4,452
323.700,500
49,725,000
733.265,643
1,890
497
1,386,000
226,325
7.739
120.000
2.675,000
1.300
72.360,000
7,000,000
327.500.000
29.954
375.070
1.845.850
7.236.900
9.964,400
1940
109.635
23.145
1,009
105.000
337,000
2,976,559
6.315
326,657.000
ss'.Vso'.ooo
41
799,496.629
230,000
5.500
152
2.512,500
449,154
1,671
2.345.000
2,333
13.000.000
2.000.000
393.887,000
100
182.725
252,000
575,000
7,564.000
7.312.100
46.385
298.420
19.724
26,500
611.375
3,278.114
7.150
403.339.000
49.050.000
886.995.903
Yearlings and adults
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
Gasoline
Launches
Sail and
Row Boats
Gill Nets
No.
Tons
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
Yards Value
Northern Inland Waters
806 ^
40
318
111
377
482
$ 10,500
54,400
36,700
109,500
115,400
147
109
48
131
100
42
170
206
10
$ 71,170
43.735
24,825
122.860
75,040
12,025
193,435
107,420
2,107
276
53
47
120
27
71
130
115
82
$ 8,843
3.735
2,455
5,392
1.377
3,605
11,415
4,050
2,783
566,1201 $ 82.817
398
155
463
328
10
6
16
15
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Liake Huron
528,969
1,327,250
1,487,200
60.430
138.860
188 63(1
125
933
574
238
Lake Erie
41
965
285,300
2,134,951
1,250,380
281.383
1 1 R »fic^
1
!
Totals ■
4,020 92
2,293
$611,800
963
$652,617
921
$43,655
1
8,282,8341 $976. 68."^
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Herring
lbs.
Whitefish
lt)3.
Trout
lbs.
Pike
lbs.
Pickerel
(Blue)
lbs.
13.7811 1,339,2371
1.201,163!
3.480|
26.9771
148.968
585,062
1.618.219
135
385.024
118,847
887.235
92.403
645
3,136.5561
403.5961
5,0741
163.702
1.261.211
354,058
1,334.033
1,038.7761
21
187.400
24,870
I
963,885
6.901
66.166
58.447
783
24.972
29.642
64,3091
1,129 .
Pickerel
(Do re)
2,971
5.2171
I
6
277
1.500
2,012,345
96.067
ib8.
.556.60'>
155.136
23.800
82.586
214.275
52.420
426.291
4.271
Totals
! I
3,597.7851 6,368,6171 4,364.071 1,216,2341 2,118,383
2,515,381
Price per pound.
.051
.11:
.111
.061
.05
Values
' I I
$179,889,251 $700,547.87|$480.047.81| $72.974.04| $105,919.15] $276,691.91
ANNUAL REPORT, 1940-41
55
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
the Province of Ontario,, for the Year Ending December 31st, ,1940.
MENT
Seine Nets
1
No. I Yards
Value No.
I
Pound Nets
Value
Hoop Nets
No.
Dip and
Roll Nets
Value No. Value
i I
Night Lines
No. L^ ,
Hooks r aJ^^e
Spears
No.
Value
Freezers &
Ice Houses
No.
Value
Piers and
Wharves
No
Total
Value
• ■ •
7. 1.200
*42i "e'.iso
37| 10.300
71 570
45j 3,920
$1,075
3.420
7,110
545
6.216
451
461
521
lOOl
105|
105|
650!
$15,610
15,250
19,400
81.490
65.200
10,340
300.200
57
I 1 I
$1,825 3
57
4
10
391
114
805
600
2.000
9.925
2,725
$ 5 3,250 $S05| 1 124
15
83!
235
2| 25,223
.1 5,4061
4| 3, 3001
0 2,300|
2,100|
6001
1,985
925
198
48!
102!
15!
$525
! 17
!113!
I 58!
101
I
$34,010
15.450 45
8.000 30
16,900
29,925
6,285
151,935! 82!
7.030! 28 1
700! 4|
I I
$12,
10,
11
31,
7,
3
31,
5
805
755
075
656
738
125
500
210
3351
I
$237,890
251,534
162,885
510,525
484,235
39,602
1,264,416
250.734
15.641
i ! ! I I
138! 22,140|$18,366! 1,103|$507,490|
:$ I
633117,880!
I !
59! $419! 42,182
•I I
$3,5931 68
$525|531
I I I
$270,235!394l$114,199!$3,217,462
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
■
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
101.942
4.001
3,752
1,329
4.762
8.130
15,947
7.280
!
22.504
900
28.417
2.363
265.861
35.101
1,993,542
117.650
5.144
172,666
240,352
2,546
102,478
1 288.418
1
6,220
6
4,192
21,745
92,113
129,375
90.650
57.633
5,506
80
268
59.137
17,716
303.279
297.573
181,680
254,299
1
881,821
58,920
190.744
100.001
117,233
316.893
1.140.237
235.319
258,697
3,203
4,734,040
3,318,905
792,124
2,658,792
2,211,467
835.429
9.767.998
3.039.498
608,703
$462,912.70
276,721.99
40
8
250
376
970
101
67,632.12
271,378.58
194 404 49
44 833 30
! 437
1
1
690,052.23
189.650.20
28,832.57
32,956
1,722
1
t 147,143
1
34.678
2.471.482
806,897
401,934
1,119,538
2,799.865
4.948
27.966,956
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
$58,857.20
$2,427.46
$123,574.10
$48,413.82
$32,154.72
$55,976.90
$83,995.95
$4,948.00
$2,226,418.18
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942)
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Species
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel Blue . . .
Pickerel Dore . . .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS 33,850,289 27,966,956
1939
Pounds
5,322
6,366
5,075
1,063
6,157
2,389
215
27
1,935
547
379
1,142
3,224
3
,226
,973
,802
,269
,383
,635
,062
,329
,375
,865
,681
,283
,019
.387
1940
Pounds
597
368
364
216
118
515
147
34
471
806
401
119
799
4
,785
,617
,071
,234
,383
,381
,143
,678
,482
,897
,934
,538
,865
,948
Increase
Pounds
1,644
152,965
125,746
7,349
536,107
259,032
22,253
1,561
Decrease
Pounds
1,724,441
711,731
4, 03 9,000
67,919
22,745
424,154
5,883,333
* Net Decrease
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1940
Species
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel Blue . . .
Pickerel Dore . . .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
TOTALS
Quantity
Price per
Estimated
Pounds
Pound
Value
3,597,785
.05
$179,889.25
6,368,617
.11
700,547.87
4,364,071
.11
480,047.81
1,216,234
.06
72,974.04
2,118,383
.05
105,919.15
2,515,381
.11
276,691.91
147,143
.40
58,857.20
34,678
.07
2,427.46
2,471,482
.05
123,574.10
806,897
.06
48,413.82
401,934
.08
32.154.72
1,119,538
.05
55,976.90
2,799,865
.03
83,995.95
4,948
1.00
4,948.00
27,966,956
$2,226,418.18
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF FISH TAKEN FROM THE WATERS
OF THE PROVINCE
1921—1940 INCLUSIVE
1921 $2,656,775.82
1922 2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2.858,854.79
1926 2,643,686.28
1927 3,229.143.57
1928 3,033,944.42
1929 3,054,282.02
1930 2,539,904.91
1931 $2,442,703.55
1932 2,286.573.50
1933 2.186,083.74
1934 ; . . . 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
,614,748.49
,644,163.49
,573,640.97
,564,516.37
,226,418.18
Thirty-Fifth Annual Report
OF THE
Game ond Fisheries
De parfment
1941 - 1942
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1943
ONTARtO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 4 3
I
ii^'- -5^ lounnA. tiiYi'^'^xitiiil
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province oi Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ended March 31st, 1942.
I have the honour to be.
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
G. D. CONANT,
Minister in Charge,
Department oi Game and Fisheries.
TORONTO 2,
March 15th, 1943.
fe.
THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Department of Game and Fisheries of Ontario
TO: THE HONOURABLE G. D. CONANT, K.C.,
Prime Minister and Attorney-General,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR: —
I have the honour to submit to you herewith tlie Thirty-fifth Annual Report of
the Department of Game and Fisheries, outlining a summary of the activities of the
various Departmental services, and including condensed statistics for the fiscal year
ended March 31st, 1942, as well as certain comparative tables.
INTRODUCTORY
The problems involved in providing a successful programme of conservation ia
connection with the wealth of the wild life natural resources with which this Province
has been endowed are many and varied and have been repeatedly emphasized on many
opportune occsisions. A permanent solution of the existing problems is to a very large
extent dependent upon the complete co-operation of every one who is interested in the
maintenance and preservation of this valuable heritage. In the early days fish and
game were quite abundant in the lakes and streams and in the forests throughout our
virgin territory, and the provision of nature for maintaining the supply was sufficiently
adequate. However, the process of developing a country does of necessity entail the
removal of forests and the clearing of land in connection with the establishment and
growth of a very essential agricultural industry, and the damming of rivers for the
provision of electrical power necessary for industrial requirements, as well as many
other infringements upon the habitat and environment of wild life, and a considerable
reduction of this valuable heritage has been the subsequent result. The demand on
these resources has continued to grow as their value from an economic and recreational
standpoint became more widely known and appreciated. Over a period of years
resident hunters and anglers have increased innumerably, and the tourist trade, stim-
ulated and encouraged by the activities of the Department, has in recent years become
one of our largest industries.
The policy of protection has recognized the different phases affecting supply and
demand and has been developed in an effort to maintain a proper balance. Legislative
enactments and regulations have designated specific periods of the year only during
which it is lawful to take various species of our more desirable fish and game and re-
stricted the number or quantity of such fish and game which may be taken. Suitable
areas have been designated as sanctuaries for game and fish, thus ensuring repro-
duction and perpetuation therein and in the territory immediately adjacent to such
sanctuaries. Small game has been intensively propagated and released for re-stocking
purposes, and hundreds of millions of fish are raised artificially in more than a score
of fish hatcheries and this production is annually deposited in provincial waters. The
game and fish regulations otherwise embody the results of biological and practical
experience, and the enforcement of these regulations is provided by a. staff of game and
fisheries overseers.
(1)
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
The success of this organized effort along the lines of conservation is in pro-
portion to the support and co-operation which is provided and in this connection it is
pleasing to note and record the increasing interest being taken by sportsmen, tourist
camp operators and guides as is reflected in the many splendid associations which are
giving active assistance in implementing the Departmental conservation programme.
With a continuation of such co-operation the work and efforts of the Department will
undoubtedly prove of lasting benefit to sportsmen in particular and the public generally.
FINANCIAL
The following is a complete table of the revenue collected during the period
under review and shows the various sources from which this total was derived and the
respective amounts attributable thereto: —
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st, 1942.
GAME—
Licenses —
Trapping $ 45,128.50
Non-Resident Hunting 124,365.00
Deer 94,923.90
Moose 3,278.00
Gun 97,768.84
Dog 6,196.05
Fur Dealers 28,476.00
Fur Farmers 7,244.00
Tanners 170.00
Cold Storage 227.00
$ 407,777.29
Royalty 130,686.60
1 538,463.89
FISHERIES—
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 87,831.00
Angling 476,519.95
$ 564,350.95
Sales — Spawn taking 170.07
Royalty 10,279.03
$ 574,800.05
GENERAI^—
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 7,840.00
Guides 7,690.00
$ 15,530.00
Fines ^ 21,119.26
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Game Act) 757.96
Sales— Confiscated articles, etc 27,069.63
Rent 3,113.50
Commission retained by Province on sale of lie 2,067.24
Miscellaneous 347.76
$ 70,005.35
Net Ordinary Revenue $ 1,183,269.29
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
The amount collected during this period was the largest recorded in any one
particular year during the entire existence of the Department, and exceeds by prac-
tically $200,000.00 the revenue of the previous year. It is also $168,000.00 in excess of
the total amount collected in the previous best financial year, i.e. 1939-40, when for the
first time our revenue exceeded the one million dollar mark.
One significant fact which merits favourable comment and more than cursory
attention is the amount derived from the sale of non-resident angling and hunting
licenses. Upon reference to the foregoing statement of revenue it will be noted that
the sum derived from these sources totalled $600,884.95, which is more than fifty per
cent of the revenue collected by the Department from all sources during this period,
and almost $132,000.00 in excess of the revenue collected from these sources in the pre-
vious fiscal year. By far the greater proportion of this total would result from the
sale of such licenses to visitors from the United States, which is an indication of the
importance of the tourist trade to the country generally, as this sum would represent
but a small percentage of the total funds such visitors would of necessity have to expend
for transportation, meals, accommodation and entertainment or recreation additional
to hunting and fishing during the period of their visits within the Province. The efforts
devoted by the Government to attract visitors to Ontario and thus develop the tourist
traffic within the Province were showing substantial dividends, but it is altogether prob-
able that the entry of the United States, on December 8th, 1941, into the present con-
flict, will undoubtedly be followed by a noticeable retrogression of this traffic due to
diminished numbers of American citizens visiting this country for vacation purposes,
particularly during the period in which the existing restrictions governing travel and
transportation conditions prevail. Other sources from which increased revenue was
derived include the fees received from the sale of the various resident licenses
required for hunting purposes, from the sale of trapping licenses and from the collection
of fur royalties.
The subjoined table will be of interest by reason of the fact that it depicts com-
parative revenues derived from these sources during the year under review, the two
previous fiscal years, and the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1936, the first complete
twelve-month period under the present regime: —
Non-resident Licenses
1935-36
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
Angling
$ 200,641.65
53,080.00
$ 391,504.00
84,590.00
$ 384,675.00
84,265.00
$ 476,519.75
Hunting
124,365.00
Resident Licenses
(Hunting)
Deer
$ 253,721.65
$ 56,544.05
2,728.00
69,635.93
3,239.35
$ 476,094.00
$ 81,882.00
2,733.50
94,882.18
5,550.00
$ 468,940.00
$ 77,469.40
2,948.00
86,527.85
5,746.10
$ 600,884.75
$ 94,923.90
Moose
3,278.00
Gun
97,768.00
Dog
6,196.05
Trapping Licenses
$132,147.33
$ 28,315.15
110,884.40*
$185,047.68
$ 39,772.30
116,520.40
$172,691.35
$ 35,795.50
101.599.18
$202,165.95
$ 45,128.50
Royalty (Fur)
130,686.60
♦ No open season for beaver.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
Details of expenditures, both ordinary and capital, are in accordance with the
following tabulation: —
EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st, 1942.
ORDINARY—
Main Office $ 57,091.61
General / 3,489.62
Enforcement 217,374.13
Game Animals and Birds 17,809.99
Macdiarmid 2,576.94
Biological and Fish Culture Branch 206,186.84
Grants 5,400.00
Wolf Bounty , 40,593.77
Special Warrants, —
Cost of Living Bonus $ 23,768.51
Unemployment Insurance . . 11.67
23,780.18
Total — Ordinary . . . .^ ..y^^^^^.j ,^ $ 574,231.08
Capital 2,531.18
Total Expenditure ..,...$ 576,762.26
The complete financial statement for the year shows a very desirable condition in
that a surplus of $606,507.03 was derived from our operations and the statement is by
far the best ever submitted by the Department of Game and Fisheries.
As will have been observed the heaviest expenses are those incurred in connection
with enforcement for the maintenance of the Field Officers whose duties are to provide
patrol service throughout the Province to secure proper and adequate observance of the
various provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regulations, as well as those
which are incurred to provide the various services of the Biological and Fish Culture
Branch under the supervision of which Branch the provincial fish hatcheries are operated.
The increased bounty on wolves which was continued during the year quite
possibly encouraged trappers to devote more time and energy to the destruction of
this vicious predator which probably accounts for the considerable increase in the
number taken and therefore the greater amount necessary to take care of the sub-
sequent applications for the payment of bounty.
Regarding the payment of grants, one of $2,500.00 was made to the Ontario Fur
Breeders' Association to assist this organization in their efforts to develop the industry
of fur farming within the Province. Three grants totalling $1,900.00 were paid to Mr.
Jack Miner, Mr. Thomas N. Jones and Miss Edith L. Marsh in appreciation of their
efforts to provide sanctuaries for migratory and native birds on their own properties
located in the counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey respectively. A grant of $500.00 was
made to Professor W. J. K. Harkness to enable him to continue research work with a
view to supplementing the existing practice in fish culture operations, and a grant of
$500.00 was made available to the Ontario Federation of Anglers to be used by them
along educational lines, and more particularly with a view to securing better observance
of the provisions of the Fisheries Regulations.
Capital expenditures were kept under rigid control and only such sums were ex-
pended as were absolutely necessary to maintain present buildings, principally on fish
hatchery properties, in a proper state of repair.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
The table which follows shows the total revenue, expenditure and surplus from
Departmental activities during the present and the six preceding years: —
Revenue
Expenditure
(Ordinary & Capital)
Surplus
1935-36
$ 683,938.72
782,217.63
866,558.19
914,475.24
1,015,350.82
984,800.69
1,183,269.29
$ 451,041.91
474,128.95
563,938.33
575,437.79
568,198.55
512,834.70
576,762.26
$ 232,896.81
318,088.68
302,619.86
339,037.45
447,152.27
471,965.99
606,507.03
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
GAME
In the following table information is given regarding the number of hunting
licenses of all varieties, both resident and non-resident, which were sold during the
period under review as well as a comparison with the totals disposed of in the three
previous years: —
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
Resident Deer
21,762
307
7,719
471
114,580
1,329
569
1,618
49
21,416
323
7,722
497
113,992
1,492
593
1,567
108
20,219
310
6,486
536
97,218
1,291
755
1,377
161
25,225
333
Resident Deer (Camp)
•Resident Deer (Farmers)
7,353
611
Resident Moose
Resident Gun
116,622
2,028
1,115
1,876
189
Non-Resident Deer ^ . . .
Non-Resident "General"
Non-Resident Small Game
Non-Resid-ent Bear (Spring Season)
In every instance there was an increase in the number sold in 1941-42 as com-
pared with those sold in the previous year.
Herewith is a summary of conditions as they apply to the various species of game
animals and birds which are to be found in Ontario, and which information is compiled
from reports submitted by officers of the enforcement service throughout the Province.
DEER: — Throughout the northerly portion of Southern Ontario and in Northern Ontario
generally deer continued to be sufficiently plentiful to warrant the statement that the
hunting of this species of fine game animal provides a source of relaxation for thou-
sands of interested hunters unequalled by any other division of the sport. The
limited extent of the open season and the various restrictions which are in effect during
this period of open season, as well as the protection which is provided during that
period of the year in which no hunting of deer is permitted, have all contributed in
some measure to the maintenance of the deer herds of the Province in their present
satisfactory state. Reports from the various counties in Southern Ontario in which
an entire closed season has prevailed for many years are to the effect that this complete
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
protection which has been provided has resulted in a considerable increase in the num-
bers of these animals which now inhabit many of these areas, though this improve-
ment has not been sufficiently extensive to warrant the provision of general regulations
for the hunting of deer in the^e areas. However, conditions were such in the Counties
of Bruce and Carleton that special regulations were promulgated in connection with
the hunting of deer therein, details of which are as follows: —
(a) An open season in the County of Bruce, from November 10th to November
18th, 1941, both days inclusive, though the use of dogs during this hunting season
was prohibited.
(b) An open season in that part of the County of Carleton lying west of the
Rideau River, from November 3rd to November 18th, 1941, both days inclusive.
The general regulations which govern the hunting of deer were in effect.
In Division (D), Southern Ontario, a special regulation establishing the
period of the open season for deer provided that such open season would extend
from November 3rd to November 18th, 1941, both days inclusive.
In accordance with local recommendations received in the Department it was
further provided that it would be unlawful for any person to hunt deer in the
Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward and in the Township
of Cambridge, in the County of Russell, at any time during the year 1941, thus
eliminating the open season in these areas which is established by the general
provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act.
MOOSE: — Generally speaking this species of game animal is not plentiful anywhere
in this Province, though there are some areas in which rather favourable conditions
do prevail. An entire closed season on these animals has been effective for the past
several years in that portion of Ontario lying south of the French and Mattawa
Rivers and Lake Nipissing, and this prolonged period of entire protection has not re-
sulted in any general increase in the numbers of moose which exist in this part of the
Province, though some slight improvement is reported from the County of Renfrew
and the District of Muskoka. Advice from various northern Ontario sections indicates
conditions practically similar to those which have existed there in more recent years,
with slight improvement in scattered areas. Hunting was permitted during the usual
open seasons in accordance with provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act, while a
restricted period of open season, extending from October 15th to October 31st, 1941,
was provided in that area in northwestern Ontario, west of the Superior Junction-Fort
William Branch of the Canadian National Railway, including the district of Rainy River
and portions of the districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay, and in that area in the south-
eastern part of northern Ontario, lying north of North Bay and east of Sudbury, and in-
cluding portions of the districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming and Sudbury.
CARIBOU: — But very few specimens of this variety of game animal exist in Ontario
at this time. Naturally they are reported only from locations in northern Ontario and in
all instances the information received is to the effect that they are very scarce. They
are probably most prevalent, though not plentiful even there, on the larger islands in
Lake Superior located along the shore fronting the district of Thunder Bay. Existing
conditions demand a continuation of the protection of a closed season throughout the
entire year, and which has now prevailed for quite a period of years, if this species is to
have an opportunity to maintain itself even in its present limited proportions.
ELK: — The elk which are to be found in Ontario at the present time are those which
were originally imported by this Department from Western Canada with the co-opera-
tion of the National Parks Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources of Canada,
and their subsequent off-spring. During the summer of 1941 six of these animals, three
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
bulls and three cows, were transferred from their range on the Petawawa Crown Game
Preserve in the county of Renfrew, and liberated in a suitable area in the county of Peter-
borough. Little if any improvement was reported from the localities in which elk have
been liberated on different occasions in previous years in the counties of Bruce, Simcoe
and Peterborough, and in the districts of Nipissing, Sudbury, Algoma and Thunder Bay.
These are the only sections in the Province in which these animals are to be observed,
in addition to those on the Petawawa Crown Game Preserve.
BUFFALO: — Little change has occurred in the small herd of buffalo, comprised of
sixteen heifers and four bulls, which was imported from Alberta in 1939, and placed
on lands in the Burwash Crown Game Preserve in the district of Sudbury.
BEAR: — There would appear to have been some increase in the number of black bear in.
many parts of Ontario. They are reported to be quite numerous in many parts of northern
Ontario and in the districts of Parry Sound and^Muskoka and the counties of Haliburton
and Renfrew. The demand for the pelts of these animals is at present negligible and
as a result of this condition there is no encouragement for the trapping of bear. How-
ever, much healthy recreation may result from the hunting of these animals, and no
doubt many hunters take advantage of the opportunity for sport thus provided. It will
be of interest to report that during the spring bear season from April 1st to June 15th,
1941, some one hundred and eighty-nine (189) hunting licenses were issued to non-
residents of the Province for the taking of bear, again recording an increase in the
number of such licenses issued as compared with those sold during this season in the
previous fiscal year.
RABBITS: — The following varieties of rabbits are to be found in different sections of
the Province, viz: — cottontail rabbits, European hare (or jack rabbits) and the vary-
ing hare (or snowshoe rabbits).
Cottontail rabbits are reported from all southern Ontario counties with the ex-
ception of Renfrew, Haliburton, Muskoka and Parry Sound. Generally speaking, con-
ditions as they applied to this variety were very good and some increase was evident.
However, conditions were not favourable in several of the eastern counties as well as
in the counties of Grey and Bruce.
The European hare. Or jack rabbit as it is more familiarly known, is confined
to the extreme southwesterly portion of the Province, lying south of the district of
Muskoka and the county of Haliburton and west of the county of Hastings. With but
few exceptions reports indicated that they were quite plentiful throughout this section.
The' varying hare, or snowshoe rabbit, is prevalent in many of the eastern
counties and northern districts of southern Ontario and throughout that portion of
the Province lying north and west of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing.
They were reported to be not too plentiful in any of these areas except possibly in the
far northwestern districts, though a slight general improvement in their numbers was
observed.
There is no doubt that the hunting of rabbits is the favourite sport of a large
percentage of hunters throughout the Province, particularly in the late fall and early
winter, and there are many who participate in the enjoyable and healthy recreation de-
rived from such hunting.
PARTRIDGE: — Satisfactory conditions with reference to both ruffed grouse and sharp-
tailed grouse continued to prevail in the areas in which suitable environment exists,
more particularly in the northern districts of the Province. The sharp-tailed variety
of partridge are the western Canada species and are found in Ontario only in the
northwestern districts. Special regulations were adopted to provide for an open season
during the fall of 1941, details of which are as follows: —
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The general open season consisted of two periods extending from October 4th to
October 14th, and from November 3rd to November 12th. Limits of catch provided by
the Regulation which governed in this case were not more than five (5) birds per day
and not more than twenty-five (25) birds in all during the two periods. This applied
throughout the Province except in the counties of Essex and Kent and in the townships
established as Regulated Game Preserve Areas. In these areas mentioned in this ex-
ception to the general Regulation the dates on which the hunting of partridge was
permitted were October 24th, 25th "and 29th and November 1st, and the limits of catch
were five (5) birds per day.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE :— This species of game bird is not native to the Province.
The present stock is the result of importations, principally from central European
countries several years ago, and which were later liberated in suitable areas. They are
reported to exist, though not at all plentiful, in many southern counties, and small flocks
have been observed in isolated and scattered sections of southern Algoma, eastern
Thunder Bay and Rainy River. They are possibly more numerous in counties in the ex-
treme southwest and extreme southeast portions of the Province. The open season
provided in 1941 was in effect only in the counties of Essex and Kent on October 24th,
25th and 29th and November 1st, and the limits of catch were established at two (2)
birds per day.
PHEASANTS: — During the year 1941 the Department undertook the distribution of
21,168 pheasants, comprising 19,684 poults, 1,122 adult hens and 362 adult cocks. These
birds were purchased at a cost of $16,514.85, and were liberated under the supervision
of field officers of the Department, 18,259 in the townships established as Regulated
Game Preserve Areas and 2,909 in a few counties additional thereto. Following are
details of this distribution, and in all cases except as is indicated the birds liberated
were poults: —
Regulated Game Preserve Areas: — County of Brant, (three townships, — Bur-
lord, South Dumfries and Onondaga), 760 birds; County of Elgin, (five townships, —
Aldbcrough. Eayham, Dorchester South, Dunwich and Malahide), 1,000 birds; County of
Haldimand, (ten townships, — Canboro, Dunn, Moulton, Cayuga North, Cayuga South,
Oneida, Rainham, Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole), 1,263 birds, of which 13 were adults;
County of Halton, (four townships, — Esquesing, Nassagaweya, Nelson and Trafalgar),
1,641 birds of which 191 were adults; County of Lambton, (one township, — Plympton),
200 birds; County of Lincoln, (eight townships, — Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grimsby
North, Grimsby South, Grantham, Louth and Niagara), 2,670 birds of which 270 were
adults; County of Middlesex, (two townships, — Westminster (part) and Metcalfe), 500
birds; County of Norfolk, (four townships, — Middleton, Townsend, Walsingham and
Windham), 640 birds; County of Ontario, (three townships, — Pickering, Whitby East and
Whitby West), 750 birds; County of Oxford, (one township, — Dereham), 300 birds;
County of Peel, (five townships, — Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto (part) and
Toronto Gore), 1,652 birds of which 289 were adults; county of Prince Edward, (one
township, — Marysburgh South), 100 birds; County of Welland, (eight townships, —
Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, Stamford, Thorold, Wainfleet and Willoughby),
1,800 birds; County of Wellington, (one township, — Puslinch), 300 birds; County of
Wentworth, (eight townships, — Ancaster, Barton, Beverley, Binbrook, Glanford, Flam-
boro East, Flamboro West and Saltfleet), 1,783 birds of which 24 were adults; County
of York, (seven townships, — Gwillimbury East, Gwillimbury North, King, Markham,
Scarboro, Vaughan and Whitchurch), 2,900 birds, of which 650 were adults.
(General:— County of Essex, 1,221 birds,— 700 on the mainland and 521 (of which
47 were adults) on Pelee Island; County of Huron, 50 birds; County of Kent, 700 birds;
County of Lambton, 25 birds; County of Leeds, 50 birds; County of Northumberland,
213 birds; County of Oxford, 600 birds; and County of Perth, 50 birds.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
The Regulations which prescribed the open season for the taking of pheasants in
1941 established October 30th and 31st, and November 7th and 8th as the effective
dates on Pelee Island with a limit of catch of five (5) birds per day and a possession
limit of ten (10) birds during each of the two two-day periods, with the further pro-
vision that in each two-day period hunters could include in their possession
limit of ten (10) birds not more than three (3) hen birds conditional
upon the payment of $1.00 each for such hens to the Departmental repre-
sentative on the Island. In the Township Regulated Game Preserve Areas the dates
of this open season were October 24th and 25th, and two additional days, viz: — October
29th and November 1st, provided the municipal authorities in any township issued their
special hunting licenses therefor. The limits of catch provided were three (3) cock
birds per day. Hunters who participated in this open season on Pelee Island and in the
Regulated Game Preserve Areas were required to provide themselves with the special
hunting license which the municipal councils were authorized by the Regulations to
issue, as well as the hunting license required under the Game and Fisheries Act. In
the County of Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and the County of Kent the dates of the
open season were October 24th, 25th and 29th and November 1st, with a limit of catch
of three (3) cock birds per day.
While in the areas in which the open season prevailed conditions have been
conductive to the introduction and successful establishment of this species, and were
sufficiently satisfactory to warrant provision of the hunting which was permitted in
the fall of 1941, it is quite possible that any future extension which may be contemplated
will be restricted to areas in which weather conditions are not too severe. Efforts under-
taken by the Department in previous years with a view to securing establishment of
these birds in areas immediately to the east and north of the section concerned have
not been particularly successful, and while some birds may yet be found in these
areas there has not been any noticeable increase in their numbers according to the re-
ports of our field officers stationed therein.
QUAIL: — The only portion of the Province in which these birds are reported to be
found in sufficient numbers to assure any measure of success in the hunting of same
would appear to be in a few counties in the extreme southwestern end of the Province,
though a few isolated small bevies have been observed in some of the eastern counties.
A special open season was provided by Regulation in the counties of Essex (excluding
Pelee Island) and Kent on October 24th, 25th and 29th and November 1st, 1941, with
a limit of catch of four (4) such birds per day.
BUCKS: — There is every indication that the several varieties of ducks which cross
Ontario along the route of their southerly migration during the fall of the year provide
a good measure of sport for those who find recreation in the hunting of this species of
game bird. They were fairly plentiful and appeared in increased numbers in many
areas, particularly those in which favourable feeding conditions exist. The various
provisions which govern the hunting of ducks are provided by the Federal Government
in co-operation with the various Provinces under the Migratory Birds Convention Act
and Regulations. The restrictions which have been in effect in more recent years for
the protection of wild ducks have undoubtedly reacted favourably and resulted in
creating conditions necessary for the improvement now reported and which has been
the objective towards which our efforts have been directed. The present desirable condi-
tions will probably continue providing the existing restrictions are maintained.
GEESE: — This species is of little importance in the general scheme of hunting in On-
tario. Conditions remained about the same as has been indicated in Departmental an-
nual reports for the past several years. Successful hunting of wild geese may be en-
joyed only along the shores of James Bay, in the far northern end of the Province, and
in the extreme southwestern counties. In other sections they are observed only in flight
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during the fall and spring migration periods. As in the case of wild ducks the regula-
tions which are authorized for the hunting and protection of wild geese are provided
under the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
WOODCOCK: — As a general rule these birds are not very plentiful, and in most sections
from which they are reported their numbers are quite limited. The only possible excep-
tions to this general rule are a few counties along the north shore of Lake Erie and
immediately to the north thereof, as well as in some of the counties in the southeastern
end of the Province. The Migratory Birds Convention Act governs, and in 1941 the open
season extended over a period of only one month, in the northern division from Sep-
tember 20th to October 20th, and in the southern division from October 1st to
October 31st. The bag limit was eight (8) per day and not more than one hundred (100)
for the season.
SXIPE: — There are but few sections in Ontario in which these birds are found in suffi-
cient number to warrant any extensive hunting of the same, and it is quite probable
that not many hunters make any particular effort to take them. This is another species
protected by the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations.
PLOVER: — Conditions with respect to these birds are varied, and while unfavourable
reports predominate and indicate that a not too satisfactory state generally prevails,
there are some sections from which some improvement has been reported. Under the
Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations plover are provided the protection
of an entire closed season.
PUR-BEARING ANIMALS
The following is a summary of conditions which apply to fur-bearing animals
throughout the Province, and which information has been prepared from reports sub-
mitted by officers of the Field Service Staff: —
BEAVER: — The reports which have been received regarding beaver would indicate
that these animals exist in fairly satisfactory numbers throughout Ontario, except in
some of the counties situated in the southwestern and southeastern portions of the
Province, though a slight increase in their numbers is reported from some of these
counties. While the necessity for the present regulations for the protection of this
species is apparent, existing conditions did warrant the provision of a short open
season with a restricted limit of catch, and the open season provided covered the
period from December 1st to December 21st, 1941, and was in effect in that portion of
the Province lying north and w^est of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake
Nipissing (except the area lying west of the line of the Canadian National Railway from
Fort Willam to Superior Junction and south of the main transcontinental line of the
Canadian National Railway from Superior Junction to the Manitoba Boundary), in the
districts of Manitoulin, Parry Sound and Muskoka, and that part of the district of Nipis-
sing lying south of the Mattawa River (excluding Algonquin Park), and in the counties of
Victoria, Haliburton, Peterborough, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and
Renfrew. Under the regulations which governed all persons who trapped beaver during
this open season, including farmers trapping on their own lands, were required to
secure trapping licenses, and each trapper was authorized to take not more than ten
(10) beaver during this open season. Returns received in the Department show that
some 25,197 pelts were taken during this period of open season, and it has been es-
timated that the value of these pelts to the trappers concerned was in excess of
$530,000.00.
FISHER: — The annual catch of these animals is indeed very small. Conditions with
reference to this species are not good in any part of Ontario. It is practically extinct
in that part of the Province lying south of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake
Nipissing.
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FOX: — The red variety of this species showed a remarkable increase, particularly in
southern Ontario during the period covered by this report. As a matter of fact the
total catch of 32,215 was more than double the catch of the previous year, and has not
been exceeded since the season of 1936-37. This condition resulted in the receipt of
many complaints from farmers to the effect that they were losing considerable num-
bers of their poultry due to the depredations of these predators and which complaints
influenced the Department to instruct field officers that no action was to be taken to
prevent trappers and hunters from taking foxes for a period of fifteen days following
the end of the regular open season, or until March 15th, 1942. This condition also re-
sulted in action by the Municipal Councils of some of the thickly settled townships in
the counties of Peel, York and Ontario to provide for the payment of a bounty on foxes
which were killed within the limits of such townships. While other varieties of wild
fox, — cross, silver or black and white, — are not nearly so numerous as are red fox, a
substantial increase in the seasonal catch of each variety was recorded.
LYNX: — In this case there was also an increase recorded in the total catch reported
during the year, though the number taken was very srhall. They are trapped principally
in northern Ontario, and while there are reports of their existence in some scattered
portions of southern Ontario, in all sections the condition of this species can be des-
cribed only as extremely scarce.
MARTEN: — As in the case of lynx these animals are extremely scarce and few of this
species are found other than in northern Ontario. Some small improvement is reported
from the district of Cochrane and the northern portion of the district of Algoma. There
was an increase in the season's catch.
MINK: — Conditions as they affected this species showed improvement in practically
every section of the Province. While this improvement would no doubt result in a pro-
portional increase in the total catch during the open season which prevailed, to this
improvement could not be attributed in its entirety the very substantial increase
which was reported. The total catch of 63,996 mink represented an increase in excess
of sixty-four per cent as compared with the catch of the previous year. This total has
not been exceeded by the take of any one season since 1926. Exceptionally favourable
trapping conditions during the period of the open season were unquestionably very
largely responsible for this remarkable increase.
MUSKRAT: — It is again possible to report that fairly satisfactory conditions prevailed
in respect to muskrat. While there were local increases and declines in the existing
numbers of these animals, generally speaking a normal average was maintained as is
indicated by the number trapped during the open season which was again provided by
Regulation. Different periods of open season were established to coincide with favour-
able weather conditions in the sections concerned. The principal source of general
revenue accruing to licensed trappers is derived from the sale of their muskrat pelts.
It has been calculated that trappers received the approximate sum of $1,445,000.00 from
muskrat pelts marketed by them, which-' was forty-five per cent of the estimated value
of the total catch of fur taken during the various open seasons of 1941-42.
OTTER: — This species is not too plentiful in any section of Ontario, though there are
a few sections in the northern part of tlie Province from which improvement has been
reported. The number trapped during the open season was about average.
RACCOON: — General conditions with reference to raccoon would appear to be deterior-
ating. They exist only in the lower section of the Province, and while the annual catch
showed an increase when compared with the figure for the previous year, this impres-
sion of improvement is not substantiated by the reports of our field officers, the majority
of whom advise that conditions are unchanged or that there has been some decrease
in their numbers.
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SKU\K: — This is a species of fur-bearing animal which continues to experience no
difficulty in maintaining itself in practically undiminished numbers. They are reported
to be quite plentiful in practically every section of Ontario and there was a considerable
increase in the numbers which were taken during the trapping season of 1941-42. They
may be taken at any time during the period in which trapping licenses are valid.
WEASEL: — The prevalence of this species varies in different sections. As in the case
of skunk they may be taken at any time during the general trapping season. The total
catch during the season of 1941-42 was just average, and it is quite possible that the
small returns derived from the sale of these pelts did not encourage trappers in their
efforts to take these animals.
The following is a comparative table showing the numbers of pelts of the several
varieties of fur-bearing animals taken by licensed trappers, and which were either ex-
ported or dressed, during the fiscal period covered by this report, as well as similar
figures for the three preceding years: —
Bear
Beaver
Fisher . . ,
Fox (Cross)
Fox (Red)
Fox (Silver or Black)
Fox (White)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Wolverine
1938-39
363
1,366
1,467
2,164
22,366
131
142
785
2,074
25,111
508,893
3,764
9,493
89,100
93,488
3
1939-40
295
33,530
1,382
981
19,925
101
36
514
1,790
36,518
689,706
4,101
14,493
74,176
95,832
2
1940-41
274
21,605
858
722
15,059
67
91
383
1,439
38,976
739,224
3,931
11 973
72.005
53,719
2
1941-42
384
25,197
884
1,780
32,215
206
114
537
1,652
63,996
722,387
3,880
13,499
94,656
80,776
3
Some ten thousand licenses were issued by the Department of Game and Fisheries
during the 1941-42 season to authorize the trapping of fur-bearing animals, and from
reports received by the Department from various licensed fur dealers it has been esti-
mated that such trappers received a total of $3,170,790.45 for the various pelts taken
by them during this trapping season, which is an increase of more than eighteen per
cent over the estimated valuation for the previous year. In order of importance the
principal sources of this increase were mink, fox, skunk, beaver and weasel.
Pelts taken from animals raised on licensed fur farms, viz: — fox (silver or black,
blue and cross), and mink, and disposed of during the year by such fur farm licensees
have been estimated to have realized the sum of $1,036,354.08, a decrease of some
$210 000.00 as compared with the operations of the previous year, making the value of
the total fur production of the Province for the year 1941-42 the sum of $4,207,144.53.
FUR FARMING
The propagation of fur-bearing animals in captivity continued during the year,
though these operations were confined principally to mink and foxes. Disturbing in-
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fluences such as restricted markets for fur, rising costs of feeds and the uncertainty
of supplies, attributable to the state of war in which our country is involved, caused
some reduction in the number of fur-farm licenses which were issued during the year,
and there was a decrease of some ten thousand, or practically thirty per cent in the
number of silver and black fox pelts which were marketed by licensed fur farmers
during the year as compared with the number marketed during the previous year. There
were 1,613 fur farms licensed during 1941, a reduction of twelve per cent.
The following comparative table shows the total number of animals retained as
breeding stock on licensed fur farm premises as at the first day of January in each of
the four years included in the comparison: —
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (Cross)
Fox (Red)
Fox (Silver or Black)
Fox (Blue)
Lynx
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
Marten
Otter
1939
2
19
197
120
22,923
98
2
30,378
267
284
6
15
0
1940
4
27
168
96
18,327
209
2
31,989
235
243
10
19
2
1941
13
26
134
65
16,034
397
2
34,277
179
139
7
16
2
1942
18
16
112
73
15,630
644
2
38,650
119
124
5
19
0
It has been estimated that this breeding stock as at January 1st, 1942, had a
repliacement value of $1 994,815.00.
A compilation of fur records undertaken by the Department shows that licensed
fur farmers duj'ing the year 1941-42 disposed of the following pelts from stock raised
on these establishments, viz: —
63,580 mink, 61,303 of which were exported, and the remaining 2,277 dressed
within the Province.
24,410 silver and black fox, 16,466 of whi^h were exported, and the remaining
7,944 dressed within the Province.
524 blue fox, 503 of which were exported, and the remaining 21 dressed within
the Province.
164 cross fox, 109 of which were exported, and the remaining 55 dressed within
the Province.
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
The various Crown Game Preserves which had existed in the previous year were
continued without change in any case either as regards the area involved or the con-
ditions pertaining thereto. Similar comment applies also to the several townships
which were previously established as Regulated Game Preserve Areas.
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Only one new Crown Game Preserve was established during 1941-42, and this was
the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Sanctuary. The area included therein is located in the
district of Cochrane lying west of the Ontario-Quebec interprovincial boundary, east
of the Moose and the North French Rivers, south of the southern shore of James Bay,
and north of the northern boundaries of the townships of Inglis, Swartman, McQuibban,
Tweed and Blakelock and the easterly extension thereof to the Ontario-Quebec inter-
provincial boundary. The regulation which provided for the establishment of this
Sanctuary was adopted at the request of the Department of Mines and Resources for
Canada, primarily to enable the Department of Game and Fisheries with the co-operation
of the Federal Department of Mines and Resources to re-stock the area with beaver
during the years specified, control the annual take of beaver therein, if and when such
trapping is permitted, and provided a restricted and controlled trapping ground for the
benefit of Indian residents in Ontario. The regulation further provides for the trapping
in this area by resident Indians only of fur-bearing animals other than beaver. This is
the second such Sanctuary now established.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty statistics
and payments for a period of five years ending with the 1941-42 fiscal period: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Mar. 31, 1938
For year ending Mar. 31, 1939
For year ending Mar. 31, 1940
For year ending Mar. 31, 1941
For year ending Mar. 31, 1942
1,022
1,031
1,107
738
1,199
837
723
614
400
577
30
41
22
8
37
1,889
1,795
1,743
1,146
1,813
$27,474.24
25,357.00
25,058.12
16,477.43
40,593.77
The basic rate of bounty on adult wolves, viz: — $25.00, which was provided by
regulation dated March 1st, 1941, was in effect in 1941-42, while the bounty on wolf
pups (animals under the age of three months) remained at $5.00.
This increased bounty was probably the principal incentive to the intensified
hunting and trapping of these animals which resulted in an extremely large increase
in the number of wolves killed and the subsequent applications for the payment of
bounty. It will be observed upon reference to the foregoing comparative table that
bounty was paid on a total of 1,813 wolves, which represented an increase of 58 per cent
over the number on which bounty was paid in the preceding fiscal year. It will also
be noted that this is the largest number of wolves on which bounty has been paid since
the year ending March 31st, 1938.
During the year 1941-42 the Department received 1,350 claims for the payment of
bounty on a total of 1,834 wolves, twelve of which claims in respect of seventeen pelts
were refused for various reasons.
The following is a summary showing in detail the sources of origin and the
variety of pelts on which application for bounty was made: —
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
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SUMMARY OF APPLICATIONS FOR WOLF BOUNTY
County
Timber
Brush
Pups
Bruce
Dufferin
Essex
Frontenac
Grey
Hastings
Kent
Lambton ,
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox & Addington
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northumberland . . . .
Ontario
Oxford
Peterboro
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont
Victoria
Total County
DISTRICT
Algoma
Cochrane . . .
Haliburton .
Kenora
Manitoulin . .
Muskoka . . . .
Nipissing . . .
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River
Sudbury , . . .
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total District
Grand Total
151
98
14
9
352
26
37
92
50
51
108
66
6
141
1,050
10
11
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
10
22
0
0
4
0
12
5
12
1
1
0
1
4
0
10
2
0
0
1
0
20
5
0
0
1
0
0
10
9
0
1
0
9
6
0
0
2
0
10
1
0
52
8
0
5
12
6
1
0
0
10
16
0
1,201
114
65
4
7
92
102
6
9
4
6
57
84
0
43
479
27
0
0
0
12
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
593
40
Information assembled from the applications for bounty as submitted to the
Department shows that 525 of these wolves were destroyed by farmers, 511 by Indians,
330 by trappers, and the remainder by guides, hunters and park rangers. It would
appear that the use of wire snares was responsible for the taking of practically one
half of the total, and the remaining half principally by trapping and shooting.
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The bounty on wolves which were destroyed in the counties indicated are origin-
ally paid, in accordance with the provisions of the Wolf Bounty Act, by the county
authorities, and the Department then remits forty per cent of such bounty pay-
ments to the county authorities concerned.
As previously shown the total payments for bounty and incidental expenses
amounted to $40,593.77, of which $40,529.00 was actual bounty, and the remaining $64.77
was expenses.
GENERAL
TOURIST OUTFITTERS: —
It is generally admitted that the variety of good fishing and hunting available In
the Province are not the least of our attractions for tourist visitors. The economic
value of good hunting and fishing is apparent when it is remembered that the tourist
trade is one of the leading industries of the Province, and in this connection it is well
to remember that the intensive efforts which have been made to increase the volume
of this tourist business is part of our war effort and as such demands the complete
co-operation of every citizen.
The regulation and control of hunting and fishing camps which provide accom-
modation to the tourist trade in northern Ontario was continued in 1941-42. The neces-
sary licenses to operate were issued to 665 proprietors of such camps, and notwith-
standing the uncertainty of existing conditions this was a reduction of only two from
the number of such camps which were provided with licenses in the previous year. Of
these 610 were issued to resident operators and 55 to non-resident operators.
These camps are located as set forth in the following tabulation: —
Algoma 92
Cochrane 7
Kenora 158
Manitoulin 56
Nipissing 93
Parry Sound 109
Patricia 2
Rainy River 37
Renfrew 14
Sudbury 59
Temiskaming 6
Thunder Bay 32
Total 665
THE BULLETIN: —
Publication of the Bulletin issued periodically by the Department since August,
1936, was suspended because of prevailing economic conditions. The final number of
this very interesting publication was issued for the months of November-December,
1941. We do anticipate that this suspension is but a temporary measure and that the
publication of the Bulletin will be recommenced when normal conditions have returned
to a war-torn world.
The closing comment of the Editor contained in the last issue is quoted herewith: —
"We take this opportunity of expressing thanks to all those who
helped to make the editorial road comparatively smooth, and trust
our combined efforts have succeeded in stimulating interest in the
conservation of our Wildlife Natural Resources."
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 17
I
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT: —
The only amendments adopted applied to the Fisheries Regulations, and the
principal changes included, —
(a) (Minor alterations in the dates of the open seasons for pike, yellow pickerel
and lake trout;
(b) The provision of minimum size limits with respect to yellow pickerel when
taken by angling, 13 inches, and for maskinonge, 24 inches; and
(c) A daily limit of catch was provided to apply to perch when taken by angling, —
viz: — fifteen (15) per day for the waters of Lake Mindemoya (district of
Manitoulin), and twenty-five (25) per day for other provincial waters.
Regulations provided during the year by Order-in-Council not elsewhere referred
to in this Report included: —
(a) The issue of permits to authorize the operations of those engaged in the sale
of gill nets, in accordance with Section 17 of the Game and Fisheries Act,
and requiring submission to the Department by such permittees of monthly
returns showing such sales;
(b) Authorizing the issue of a non-resident angling license for a restricted period
of time, viz: — three consecutive days, at a fee of $2.00.
(c) To prohibit the hunting of deer and moose in the territory lying within a
distance of one and one-half miles on either side of Highway No. 70, between
Kenora and Fort Frances; and
(d) An open season for black and grey squirrels in southern Ontario, south of the
French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, except in the counties of
Essex and Kent, October 24th, 25th and 29th, and November 1st, and in the
counties of Essex and Kent, October 24th and 25th, and providing limits of
catch not to exceed five (5) such animals per day.
ENFORCEMENT
The Department's field officers are an essential part of the administration services
which are provided, and they play an important role in the conservation of the resources
with the supervision of which we are charged. Every member of this service has an
extensive district to cover and their work is made less onerous by reason of the co-
operation they receive from interested sportsmen who devote a measure of their en-
deavours to seeing that the depredations of the poacher and the law breaker are neither
countenanced nor permitted. Valuable assistance in this work of enforcement is also
received from the many members of the Provincial Police force.
A voluntary group of sportsmen and nature lovers known as Deputy Game and
Fishery Wardens lend a great deal of moral and practical support in checking and pre-
venting violations of the provisions which are in effect. These honourary officers are
supplied with proper identification and under their appointments are provided with the
necessary authority to take individual action where such is demanded in the instances
which come under their observation.
The Department would naturally prefer to find respect for the law so complete
that prosecutions would not be necessary, but until such a condition does obtain vigor-
ous action to discourage infractions, minor or otherwise, will continue to be taken.
In addition to the work of the regular enforcement officers, Provincial Police,
and Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens a great deal of co-operation and support is
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given by the Game and Fish Protective Associations throughout the Province. There
are close to two hundred of such organizations and they represent the organized effort
of sportsmen to conserve and protect the provincial wild life resources through edu-
cational and practical means. They are of great benefit and assistance in consolidat-
ing public opinion towards a proper appreciation of the value of these resources and
respect for the legislation and regulations which govern their administration, and from
the personal experience of their individual members furnish a great deal of practical
knowledge valuable in the framing of proper and effective laws.
It should be appreciated that the difficulties of protecting these resources scat-
tered over such a vast extent of territory are very considerable, and that only the com-
plete co-operation of the general public will ensure the success of our efforts. The
majority of sportsmen were never more conservation-minded than they are at present,
and sporting ideals have reached a high plane. This is a splendid augury for the
future success not only of the sports of hunting and fishing, as well as of the trapping
industry, but also for the protection and development of the resources which make
them possible.
In the usual performance of their patrol service enforcement officers found it
necessary to place under seizure various articles of hunting, fishing and trapping
equipment, as well as game, fish and the pelts of fur-bearing animals taken, in 1,525
cases in which they had evidence of violations of provisions of the Game and Fisheries
Act and Regulations. Game and Fisheries Overseers were responsible for this action
in 1,339 cases. Deputy Game Wardens in 84 cases, Provincial Police Constables in 15
cases, and in the remaining 87 cases the action was provided by Overseers, Police or
Deputy Game Wardens acting in co-operation with each other.
The following is a summary of the articles which were confiscated: —
Live animals and birds in 10 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 147 cases
Fire-arms and ammunition In 645 cases
Fish in 162 cases
Nets and fishing equipment in 167 cases
Angling equipment in 86 cases
Pelts and hides in 291 cases
Traps and trapping equipment in 186 cases
Canoes, rowboats and motor boats in 33 cases
Outboard motors in 10 cases
Motor vehicles in 5 cases
Flashlights and lanterns in 23 cases
Spears in 58 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 32 cases
The fact that more than one item was reported seized in many of these cases, —
such as fire-arms and game, venison and deer hides, nets, fish and boats, fishing tackle
and fish, traps and pelts, spears and lights, as well as other combinations, would be re-
sponsible for the apparent discrepancy as between the actual number of cases in which
seizures were reported and the total cases reported in the previous table.
Confiscated firearms were as follows: — 283 .22 calibre rifles (single shot and re-
peaters), 11 25-20 rifles, 92 heavy calibre rifles, 203 shotguns (single barrel and double
barrel), 34 repeating shotguns, 2 automatic shotguns, 3 combination weapons (rifle and
shotgun barrels), 4 revolvers and 63 air or spring guns.
Confiscated pelts of fur-bearing animals were as follows: — 335 beaver, 2 fisher,
42 fox (black, cross and red), 96 mink, 726 muskrat, 4 otter, 4 rabbit, 54 raccoon, 60
skunk, 12 squirrel and 54 weasel, as well as 37 deer and moose hides.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 19
Included among the miscellaneous articles which were seized are three axes, one
suitcase, one trunk, eight packsacks and haversacks, one tent, thirty-seven duck decoys,
one box of tools, four batteries, three hounds and two ferrets.
Charges were laid and prosecutions undertaken in 1,201 cases involving violations
of provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regulations. Convictions were regis-
tered and penalties imposed in 1,117 of these cases, in 70 cases the charges were dis-
missed by the presiding Magistrates, and in 14 cases the charges were subsequently
withdrawn. These prosecutions were undertaken by Game and Fisheries Officers in
1,144 cases, by the Provincial Police in 28 cases, in 18 cases by Game and Fisheries
Officers and Provincial Police Constables acting in co-operation with each other, and
in 11 cases in which trespass was involved by the property owners concerned.
REPORT OF THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
During the year the department operated twenty-seven hatcheries and rearing
stations in a satisfactory manner. With the exception of maintenance and necessary
repairs, additional hatchery construction was not undertaken.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
speckled Trout:
In keeping with the objective, in excess of 3,000,000 yearling speckled trout were
planted in suitable waters. In addition, 16,732 adults and 394,000 fingerlings, which
could not be accommodated in the hatcheries and ponds, were distributed.
Brown Trout: •
The distribution of brown trout yearlings was 37.4 per cent, greater than that
of the preceding year.
Brown trout are not planted in waters which continue to support native
trout in a satisfactory manner. For the most part the distribution of browns has been
confined to streams in Southern Ontario which have been giving promising results.
Since 1934 planting in lakes and streams of northern Ontario has been avoided, with
two or three exceptions; in those particular exceptions speckled trout would not be
affected.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead trout —
Distribution of fingerlings and yearlings of this species was 45 and 40 per cent.,
respectively, lower than that of the preceding year.
This species is strongly migratory and descends from small streams in which
it is planted to larger waters. For example, rainbows planted in streams flowing into
the Great Lakes migrate to the latter probably before their third year and, after sexual
maturity, return to the streams, spawn and soon after return to the lake again. Ex-
cepting in the large rivers and lakes where they remain after planting, and these cases
are apparently few, their value from the angling standpoint is open to question. Plant-
ing is confined to suitable and large, torrential rivers of the north and also to the
large, warm rivers of the south where interference with speckled trout is nil or nearly so.
It is desirable that a check be made in regard to the waters stocked with this
species to determine the validity of further planting.
(b) Kamloops trout —
A concise account of this species was given in the report for 1940. Briefly, it
20 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
has excellent game fish possibilities. It will become established in an environment
similar to that of speckled trout and it is non-migratory. We have evidence to show
that it has become established in a satisfactory manner in some of the lakes to which
it has been introduced.
During the year substantial plantings were made, namely, 88,000 fingerlings and
25,000 yearlings.
Lake Trout:
The total distribution of eyed eggs, fry and fingerling lake trout was 78 per cent,
greater than in 1940. Progress made in regard to the distribution of fingerlings was
particularly commendable, namely, 147 per cent, increase over that of the previous year.
Whitefish:
There was a decrease in the amount of whitefish fry planted, amounting to 6.8 per
cent. The decrease was due to weather conditions in Hay Bay, (vicinity of the Bay of
Quinte). Storms interfered with the operation of nets to such an extent
that many of the trapped whitefish were liberated. Heavy storms at Little Cur-
rent and on Lake Wanapitei also interfered with spawn-taking operations. At Kenora
ice formed on the nets and on the sides of the pounds; this forced the retainers under
water and liberated 50 per cent, of the whitefish. Immediately after the storm it was
necessary to remove the nets as the lake was freezing over. At Fort Frances the nets
were in a protected area but due to ice formation it was necessary to remove them and
to liberate the fish before spawn-taking operations were completed. On Lake Erie in
the vicinity of Port Dover, spawn-taking operations have become reduced in recent
years. Normal conditions will undoubtedly be re-established after the war.
Fortunately, spawn-taking operations at the west end of Lake Erie, namely, at
Kingsville were very satisfactory. Moreover, distribution took place sufficiently early
in the spring of 1942 to be included in the statistics of the fiscal year to which this
report has reference; otherwise, the decrease in distribution of whitefish fry would
have greatly exceeded 6.8 per cent.
Herring:
The collection of herring eggs is confined to the Bay of Quinte region, Lake
Ontario, and to Lake Erie. For reasons similar to those cited in the discussion under
whitefish, distribution of herring fry was 82.4 per cent, lower than that of the previous
year.
Yellow Pickerel (Pike-Perch):
The distribution of pickerel fry was 43 per cent, less than that of the previous
year. At Glenora hatchery the collection was reduced to about one-third the 1940 take
due to a storm which destroyed the nets used to collect the pickerel. At Little Cur-
rent the collection was about average. At Kenora and Fort Frances the collection was
about 60 per cent, less, due to unusually hot weather prior to the usual spawning time.
When spawning operations commenced the water temperature was high and, in fact,
40 per cent, of the pickerel handled had spawned naturally.
Small-Mouthed Black Bass:
The greatest effort was put forward to increase the number of black bass finger-
lings planted, consistent with the facilities available. Reference to Appendix No. 2
will indicate how successful those efforts have been. The distribution of fingerlings
was 54 per cent, greater than that of the previous year. At the same time the number
of fry planted was substantial.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 21
Large- Mouthed Black Bass:
The distribution of large-mouthed black bass fingerlings was 5,500 in 1940 and
17,700 in 1941.
It should be stated that only two small ponds were used for this work.
Yellow Perch:
The number of perch eggs collected in the vicinity of the Kingsville hatchery,
Lake Erie, is subject to wide fluctuations each year. Although much lower than some
previous collections, the 1941 take was 143 per cent, greater than the take of 1940.
Maskinonge:
The distribution of maskinonge fry was 10 per cent, less than that of the pre-
ceding year. In addition, 1,494 fingerlings were planted.
In the culture of maskinonge, provided the temperature gradient is rising with
no sudden or serious drops, a good yield of eggs should be obtained and a good hatch
of fry result. Since the establishment of a maskinonge hatchery at Deer Lake, Peter-
borough County, much better results have been obtained, as the temperature of the
water is more constant during the developing and hatching period.
After feeding starts, the chief obstacles which have not been surmounted, entirely,
are cannibalism, inadequate food supply and predators. Cannibalism has been over-
come to some extent at least by encouraging the development of vegetation in the pond;
this helps to protect the fish from one another. The supply of adequate amounts of
natural food, since maskinonge fry will not take artificial food, is another means of
reducing cannibalism. As is well known, maskinonge are voracious feeders and large
amounts of natural food varying in size from minute water fleas and insects to minnows
must be provided. Minnows are taken by the maskinonge before the latter are two
inches in length. The pond is fertilized to stimulate the growth of aquatic life and
vegetation, thereby increasing the food supply, and facilities are available for raising
minnows. It was found, however, that these facilities were not sufficient, and it was
necessary to harvest minnows from adjacent waters. One difficulty in supplying min-
nows is that they are not always available early enough to keep pace with the require-
ments of the maskinonge. The forage minnow which was used, although very satis-
factory from some standpoints, is too late in spawning to be of use in the early feeding
of the young maskinonge. In order to overcome this difficulty the silvery minnow, an
early spawner, is now being cultured.
Aquatic vegetation in a pond acts as a refuge for valuable insects as well as for
predatory insects. During the year under discussion large numbers of nymphs of the
large water bug, and also a smaller variety of water bug, developed in the pond. These
bugs are so constructed that they are difficult to observe among the aquatic vege-
tation as they have considerable protective resemblance to the neighbouring vegetation
and to the environment, generally. They are predaceous and have mouth parts adapted
for piercing and sucking, and they attack not only small fry but sizable fingerlings.
The nymphs are air breathers and, as it is necessary for them to come to the surface
of the water to breathe, in order to exterminate them the surface of the water was
covered with a thin film of gasoline (kerosene or coal oil is equally effective). When
the larvae were exposed to this treatment for an hour they were destroyed.
CLOSED WATERS
One of the practical methods of conserving the breeding stock of fish is to close
natural water areas to all fishing permanently, or for different periods of time, and in
these areas the fish thrive without interference and spread to other parts of the same
22 DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
lake or river. By such means a permanent breeding stock is set up, and there is taken
each year only the natural increase from it.
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and propa-
gation of fish, the following were closed during the year, April 1, 1941, to March 31, 1942:
BEAVER RIVER,
From the boat houses to the eastern limit of the village of Beaverton, common-
ly known as "Bass Spawning Beds", closed during the closed season for black
bass.
GEORGIAN BAY (Portion located as follows) :
(a) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Electric Island;
(b) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of lot 51, concession VIII,
Township of Harrison, District of Parry Sound;
(c) An area lying east of and extending approximately 2 miles along the shore
line opposite concessions XIII and XIV, Township of Harrison, District
of Parry Sound.
OSBORNE, RAINBOW, HILL, PROSPECT, TEA and MINK LAKES,
Township of Bridgland, District of Algoma.
KEKEKWA LAKE,
Southeast of Eagle Lake and north of Upper Manitou Lake, District of Kenora.
TWIN LAKES,
Township of Hudson, District of Timiskaming; closed to angling May 20 to
June 28, in each year, to protect black bass.
WHITBFISH, BASS and CLEAR LAKES,
Township of Humphrey, District of Parry Sound; prohibiting winter fishing.
WHITE PINE LAKE,
Township of Gamble, Timagami Forest Reserve, District of Timiskaming.
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH
During their spawning run, ling were harvested from Crow Lake, Oso Township,
and Fish Creek (Bobs Lake), Township of Bedford, County of Frontenac, and Otty Lake,
Township of North Elmsley, County of Lanark. The take was as follows:
Number of Ling Average Weight Total Weight
Crow Lake 512 8 lbs. 4,096 lbs.
Bobs Lake 2,109 9 lbs. 18,981 lbs.
Otty Lake 79 2 lbs. 158 lbs.
Total 23,235 lbs.,
or 11.6 tons.
A thaw set in after the net was set in Gibbs Creek (Otty Lake) which interfered
with the effectiveness of the operations.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
A biological survey of Tanner's Lake, concession VII, lot 31, N. Dumfries Town-
ship, County of Waterloo, indicated that it was suitable for large-mouthed black bass.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 23
A pond at the water-works pumping station in the City of Guelph was suggested
as a rearing pond for brown trout by the Wellington County Fish and Game Protective
Association. It was recommended that this pond should be given an experimental trial
but not on a large scale, as its value for the purpose is doubtful.
Union Creek, concessions X to XV, Galway Township, County of Peterborough,
was studied from the standpoint of its suitability for fish and it was recommended as
being suitable for brown trout.
The power dam at Healey Falls was examined regarding fish drawn into the
penstocks. This dam is located on the Trent River near Campbellford. It was recom-
mended that a grating be installed some distance away from the penstocks.
The Lynn River, Woodhouse Township, County of Norfolk, was examined for
possible pollution and its suitability for brown trout. At the time of the in-
vestigation there was no evidence of active pollution.
An investigation of the pollution of Guncotton Bay, on the Georgian Bay, vicinity
of Nobel, was made. It was found that the effluent repelled the fish from the area. If
it is found necessary to precipitate the toxic substances from solution, thorough fil-
tration or settling-out methods must be used in order to prevent any permanent dam-
age to this particular water-area. The damage being done at the time of the investi-
gation was only of a temporary nature and had no permanent effect on the bottom
condition of the bay.
MacGregor Creek, a tributary of the Thames River, in the vicinity of Chatham,
was investigated and it was found that commercial effluents from industrial plants
and domestic sewage cause the pollution which should be controlled or eliminated.
Early in August, residents of Rockland and Clarence reported dead fish of all
sizes and species on the shores of the Ottawa River. A joint investigation was con-
ducted by officials of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and recommendations were
submitted on the basis of the enquiry.
Pollution of the Moira River between Corbyville and Belleville was investigated
and was found to be caused by industrial wastes, and recommendations were made with
a view to controlling the wastes in question. The precipitation and settling-out of
the wastes were not efficient due to the shallowness of the settling basins and the
porous rock underneath. It was recommended that the use of molasses in the oper-
ations should be confined to winter months when the water is colder and in greater
volume.
An investigation was made in regard to washings of clay and mud into a stream
from a gravel pit at the northern city limits of Waterloo. It was found that
the stream bed was covered with clay and mud, that settling basins of adequate capacity
were required, and that the basins should be dredged out at intervals. Satisfactory
control of this particular pollution problem was undertaken by those responsible for it.
During the period, September 8 to 12, 1941, nets of various mesh were set off
Port Maitland, Lake Erie, for the purpose of determining the efficiency of the different
mesh for the taking of perch.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Zoology, Uni-
versity of Toronto, continued field and laboratory studies of lakes and streams in
Algonquin Park,
Yearling speckled trout were provided by the Ontario Department of Game and
T'^isheries and were distributed through the co-operation of the Park staff and the
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members of the Laboratory. The lakes which were stocked are included in the list in
Appendix No. 1 under the District of Nipissing.
The experiment on the alternate annual closure of lakes was continued. The
purpose of the experiment was to determine the value of the alternate annual closure
of lakes as a means of increasing and maintaining the stock of game fish in those
waters. As a part of this plan, lakes adjacent to one another are closed in altern-
ate years so that any area will have lakes open to fishing each year, and lakes which
are closed and in which the stock is given every opportunity to increase. In this way
anglers taking a trip through the Park will find waters open to angling along any
canoe route which they wish to travel.
The 21 lakes which were closed in 1940 were open in 1941, and in 1941 there
were 17 other lakes closed which will in turn be open to fishing in 1942.
The results of the closures are now becoming evident. The speckled trout are
showing an immediate favorable response, and the lake trout are responding favorably,
but more slowly because of their slower rate of growth. The total result is that there
is an increase in the number of fish available to the angler and the fish are showing
an increase in size as a result of the closure. These favorable results are much more
marked in some lakes than in others.
It is most desirable to carry on this procedure for some time yet on the experi-
mental basis to properly evaluate its influence upon both the speckled trout and the
lake trout in the different lakes.
The rate at which speckled trout grow is quite well known as they have been
raised in hatcheries where they are often kept for years and the growth of wild trout
has been determined by studies of the rings formed on the scales. Little is known
about the rate of growth of lake trout and yet this information is necessary if we are
to understand the results of the closure of lakes on the lake trout fishery. To this
end a study of the rate of growth of lake trout in two Algonquin Park lakes has been
started by Dr. Fry who has found in general that lake trout show approximately the
following age-length relations:
Age in years Length in inches
3 8
4 10.5
5 11.5
6 12.5
7 13.5
In order to evaluate more completely the stocking of the lakes and the alternate
annual closure it is most important that the anglers continue their co-operation as
they have in the past with the collection of complete creel census of all species of fish
taken in all the waters of Algonquin Park.
With the demands of war taking its toll upon the staff of the Fisheries Laboratory
this co-operation of the anglers is increasingly important and valuable as the reduced
staff of the Laboratory is finding it increasingly difficult to carry out all the work
necessary to measure these fish cultural activities, so that we look to the anglers for
increased assistance in this field.
The stocking of the lakes, the alternate annual closure, and the measurement
of the results of these methods are the most important fish cultural activities of the
Laboratory as a war measure. Most of the other activities have been reduced to a
minimum for the duration.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42 25
Work on the insect population of streams as food supply for speckled trout was
continued on a reduced scale as also was the study of the food of the lake trout and
the factors responsible for the movement of the game fish at different seasons of the
year."
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I cannot close this report without expressing my appreciation of the valuable
co-operation which was provided throughout the year by the Ontario Federation of
Anglers and Hunters, and the many local Game and Fish Protective Associations which
comprise the Federation and by the Northern Ontario Tourist Trade Association. The
organized efforts of these Federations to develop the spirit of conservation has been
of inestimable assistance and has resulted in many pleasant and desirable connections.
Favourable mention might also be made of the genuine assistance and co-operation
which has at all times been provided by the Township Councils or the Controlling
Organizations in the Regulated Game Preserves. The success which this scheme has
attained would probably not have resulted without such co-operation.
My concluding comments concern the work of the staff. Members of the Depart-
mental service, both at Toronto and throughout the Province, have been quite con-
scientious in the performance of their duties, and generally courteous in their contacts
with the public in their efforts to secure the best results.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries.
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APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS,
APRIL 1st, 1941, to MARCH 31st, 1942.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce
Frontenac
Huron
Leeds
Peterborough
Victoria
20,000
10,000
10,000
50,000
10,000
10,000
Total
FINGERLINGS
Bruce
Grey
Lincoln
Muskoka
Northumberland
Oxford
Parry Sound
Simcoe
Victoria
Total
ADULTS
Oxford
York .
Total
110,000
500
500
1,500
2,000
500
1,300
8,400
1,000
2,000
17,700
28
81
109
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce
Frontenac
Grenville
Haliburton
Hastings
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox, Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Ontario
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont
Sudbury
Victoria
Waterloo
Wellington
40,000
35,000
20,000
105,000
60,000
45.000
30,000
25,000
114,000
185,000
80 000
40.000
370 000
167 500
30.000
120.000
5,000
180 000
160 000
80,000
20,000
Total 1.911 500
FINGERLINGS
Algoma . .
Brant . . .
Bruce . . .
Carleton .
Cochrane
112,250
1,000
8 600
1 000
500
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey
Haldimand
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox, Addington
Manitoulin
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Peterborough
Prince Edward . . .
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
Victoria
York
Total
3,000
21,200
2,000
1.500
5,500
1,250
16,600
3,800
10,750
4,600
8,000
79,000
4,400
11,000
122,700
1,000
41,000
1,000
25.100
7,500
10,700
11,700
156,775
8.000
1,500
6 000
3,000
691 925
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Algoma
Brant
Carleton
Frontenac
Hastings
Lanark
Leeds :
Lennox, Addington
Middlesex '
Muskoka
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Miscellaneous
Total
]^fASKINO^GE
367
36
25
86
550
20
79
300
70
195
84
150
220
72
FRY
Carleton
Grenville
Haldimand ....
Haliburton ....
Hastings
Leeds
Muskoka
Nipissing
Northumberland
Ontario
Parry Sound
2.254
25 000
.•^0 000
10.000
10,000
180,000
40 000
45 000
40.000
165,000
45 000
10.000
Peterborough 1.060 000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
27
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1941, to March 31st, 1942— Continued
MASKINONGE— Continued
Prince Edward
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont
Victoria
Waterloo
York
25,000
50,000
35,000
20,000
280,000
5,000
25,000
Total 2,100,000
FINGERLINGS
Nipissing
r
Peterborough
Victoria ....
300
794
400
Total
1,494
PEBCH
FRY
Lake Erie 30,600,000
Lake St. Clair 1,000,000
Total 31,600,000
PICKEREL
EYED EGGS
Exchange 2,000,000
Kenora 500,000
Muskoka 2,000,000
Total 4,500,000
FRY
Algoma 19,700,000
Bruce 2,200,000
Carleton 1,500,000
Cochrane 3,500,000
Essex 500,000
Frontenac 9,350,000
Grenville 1,250,000
Grey 800.000
Haldimand 750,000
Haliburton 1,450,000
Hastings 5,250,000
Kenora 20,900,000
Lanark 6,700,000
Leeds 3,250,000
Lennox, Addington 2,050,000
Manitoulin 9,100,000
Middlesex 4,500,000
Muskoka 3,250.000
Nipissing 8,000,000
Northumberland 2,800,000
Ontario 650,000
Parry Sound 13,050,000
Peterborough 16,050,000
Prince Edward 9,790,000
Rainy River 22,500,000
Renfrew 6,800 000
Russell 1,000,000
Simcoe 7,000 000
Stormont 500,000
Sudbury 12,400,000
Thunder Bay 1,500,000
Timiskaming 5,850,000
Victoria 1,100,000
Great Lakes 18,500,000
Total 223,490,000
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Brant . . .
Elgin . . .
Norfolk .
Total
YEARLINGS
Brant
Bruce
Carleton
Durham
Elgin
Grey
Haldimand ....
Haliburton . . . .
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Lambton
Lanark
Lincoln
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northumberland
Ontario
Oxford
Peel
Perth
Peterborough . .
Simcoe
Timiskaming . .
Waterloo
Welland
Wellington ....
Wentworth ....
York
Miscellaneous .
Total
Exchange
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGGS
FRY
Frontenac
Hastings
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox, Addington . . .
Peterborough
Rainy River
Thunder Bay
Great Lakes
Total
10,000
40,000
10,000
60,000
17,800
32,800
3,600
6,200
24,750
47,700
1,000
150
26,400
9,800
12,000
1,000
2,000
1,000
3,850
28.050
5,300
1,800
10 200
5400
3.600
15,790
36,000
1,800
10,800
4,100
24,100
1.200
7,600
698
346,188
800,000
161,000
102.500
8,000
17,500
34,000
80,000
330,000
120.000
60,000
913,000
28
DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OP PISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1941, to March 31st, 1942— Continued
LAKE TROUT— Continued
PINGERLINGS
Algoma 636,200
Cochrane 60,000
Haliburton 290,500
Hastings 40,000
Kenora 345,000
Leeds 5,000
Lennox, Addin^ton 10,000
Manitoulin 90,000
Muskoka 350,000
Nipissing 220,000
Parry Sound 295,000
Peterborough 5,000
Rainy River 205,200
Renfrew 180.000
Simcoe 75.000
Sudbury 210,000
Timiskaming 144.000
Great Lakes 14.905,500
Total 18,066,400
RAINBOW TROUT
PINGERLINGS
Algoma
Nipissing
Sudbury
Timiskaming
Miscellaneous
Total
YEARLINGS
100,000
5,000
33,500
24,000
1,500
Dufferin
Elgin
Haliburton . .
Norfolk
Simcoe
Miscellaneous
164,000
3,600
500
1,500
2,500
1,500
2,150
Total
Algoma .
Sudbury
Total
KAMLOOPS TROUT
PINGERLINGS
11,750
84,650
3,500
YEARLINGS
Bruce
Grey
Muskoka . . . .
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Timiskaming
Miscellaneous
Total . . .
88,150
1,500
2.900
13,500
3,300
1,500
2,000
300
SPECKLED TROUT
PINGERLINGS
Algoma 105,000
Grey 22,000
Muskoka 1,000
Nipissing 5,000
Northumberland 110,000
Peel 150,000
Miscellaneous 1,000
Total
YEARLINGS
Algoma •.
Brant
Bruce
Cochrane . .♦
Dufferin
Durham
Elgin
Prontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Hastings
Huron
Kenora
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox, Addington
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland
Ontario
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
Victoria
Waterloo
Wellington
York
Miscellaneous ...
394,000
514,150
500
16,000
176,700
33,700
18,250
2,600
48,526
167,400
43,300
113,480
7,100
9,000
13,200
1,600
"41,500
1,000
100,000
160,000
194,220
7,350
21,950
12,000
750
162,400
12,800
48,191
119,020
27,500
338,900
494,800
136,600
1,100
2,550
5,100
500
17,237
Total 3,060,174
ADULT
Algoma
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
Miscellaneous
4,250
5,287
6,620
575
25,000
Total
16,732
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
29
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1941, to March 31st, 1942— Continued
WHITEFISH
FRY
Kenora 18,180,000
Prince Elward 16,000,000
Rainy River 11,811,000
Simcoe 3,000,000
Thunder Bay 250,000
Great Lakes 326,719,500
HERRING
FRY
Carleton 500,000
Frontenac 300,000
Hastings 200,000
Lennox, Addington 900,000
Prince Edward 3,000,000
Great Lakes 3,730,000
Total 375,960,500
Total 8,630,000
30 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
APPENDIX No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES— 1937 TO 1941, INCLUSIVE
Larsre-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fi-y
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinonge
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch— Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Adults
Pickerel (Bloc)
Fry
Brown Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Atlantic Salmon
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Rainbow Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fingerlings
Yearlings .
Adults
Whitefish
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Herring
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Miscellaneous
TOTALS
1937
135.000
4,120
92
1,275,000
141,900
5,893
420,700
9,150,000
2,000,000
263,743,400
1.000,000
97.484
8,225,000
4,667.000
15,782,350
7,200
105,240
80,000
884.725
L. 167.073
16.150
4.000.000
383.683.900
80.000
5,270,000
3,053
1938
57,500
8.061
804,000
169,800
7,738
2,005,000
59,150,000
2,012,500
271,567,500
500,000
59,592*
2,487,000
7,665,000
10,575,200
4,800
321,600
6,727
25,821
1,000
873,314
2.083.538
4.452
823,700.500
49.725,000
1939
1,890
497
1,386,000
226.825
7,739
120,000
2.675,000
1,300
72.360.000
7.000.000
327.500.000
29,954
375.070
1.845.850
7,236.900
9.964.400
109.635
23,145
1.009
105.000
337.000
2.97&.559
6.315
826,657.000
88.550.000
41
696,395.280 733,265.643 799.496,629 886,995,903
1940
230.000
5.500
152
2,512.500
449.154
1.671
2.345.000
2.333
13.000.000
2,000.000
393.887.000
100
182,725
252,000
575,000
7.564.000
7.812.100
46.385
298.420
19.724
26,500
611.375
3.278,114
7,150
403.389.000
49.050,000
1941
110,000
17.700
109
1.911.500
691.925
2.254
2.100.000
1.494
31.600,000
4,500.000
223.490.000
60.000
346,188
800.000
913.000
18.066.400
164.000
11.750
88.150
25.000
394,000
3.060.174
16,732
175,960,500
8,630,000
672,960,876
♦ Yearlings and adults.
32 DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Indusitry in tlie Public Waters of
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
TUK8
No.
Tons
Value
Gasoline
Launches
No.
Value
Sail and
Row Boats
No.
Value
Gill Nets
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bey
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie ,
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
734
396
126
436
284
130
784
541
177
34
360
149
4821
384
42
827
$ 11.450]
64,500
36.800
120.556
101,300
287,300
159
104
37
120
90
40
149
204
7
70,9751
44.6801
18,750 I
100,7371
58,9041
14,2001
194.4151
111.8601
7701
I
303|
70|
431
1201
26|
751
1201
101|
73|
I
$14,4501
4.5501
2.2401
5.661!
2.5901
4,0601,
6,095|
3,7441
2,7381 .
I
469.1231
830.2371
539.4201
1,419.3031
1.350.6201
$ 61,940
111,205
55,635
153,716
154,077
2,225,5201 367,054
1,292.2301 137,285
I
I ' I II I
3.6081 107| 2,236| $621.906| 910 | $615,2911
< II II I
I I 1$
931| $46,1281 8,126,45311,040,912
I I I
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring:
lbs.
Whitefish
lbs.
Trout
lbs.
Pike
lbs.
Pickerel
(Blue)
lbs.
Pickerel
(Dore)
Ibf
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior
North Channel ,
Georgian Bay ,
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie ,
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
7,
63,
188
143|
139|
983|
7191
,5941
115,
1.921,
559]
835
1.328,
314.
85.
747.
3,358
441,
1341
8871
128|
9831
058
518
647
577
I
164,8081
1,298.4851
211.5971
1.501.6311
1,109,7861
69,021
8601
1,494,108
9,398
18.152]
115.296
66.947
1
12.839
24.873
... ]
57 157
1.241
1501
1941805
34.019
200]
83,237
46,522
1.543,808
347.324
47,099
57,779
6.647
2.016
Totals
3.736.9721 6,369.9321 4,412,137| 1,101,136|
1,620.9491 2.311,413
I
1 1
.061 .11: .11
1 1
.06
]
.05! .11
Values
1
$186,848.60] $700,692.52
1
$485,335.07]
$66,068.16
1
1
$81,047,451 $254,255.43
1
ANNUAL REPORT, 1941-42
33
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
the Province of Ontario, for the year ending December 31st, 1941.
MENT
Seine Nets
No. Yards
Value
Pound Nets
No.
Value
Hoop Nets
No.
Value
Dip and
Roll Nets
No.
Value
Night Lines
No.
Hooks
Value
Spears
No.
Value
Freezers &
Ice Houses
No,
Value
Piers and
Wharves
No.
Value
Total
Value
6i 1,0001 $ 8501
27!
321
61
7, 1001
9,0801
5901
2,860|
3.9051
6,3751
5051
2,3001
I
I !
20,630!$13,935
I I
45
1
$15,470
57
22,600
40
16,950
79
76,480
103
63,500
112
13,650
55
52
5531 276.9501
3
10
345
$ 991
725
475
1,500
9,135
3,798
I
$ II
1,580
4
201
737
461
21,300
7,216
3.300
900
2,100
600
$3131
5
2,994|
8151
181
26
151
124
$30
65
22
32
12.
56
16
57
26
24
9
109
176
32
7
16
1
I I
I I
101
48
27
2501 53
1761 24
1501 17
2901 87
9201 26
,3951 1
I I
9S9|$485,600!
634116,6241
I I
391 $808( 37,000|$4.432| 1 '515
ill! I I
$302
$12,
12,
486 384 $112,
I I
$218,040
282,695
151,750
508,254
413,628
49,413
1,348,625
276,674
11.362
319 $3,260,441
I
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
lbs.
tbs.
Perch
lbs.
TuUibee
lbs.
Catfish
tbs.
Carp
lbs.
Mixed
Coarse
tbs.
Caviare
tbs.
Total
lbs.
Value
! 57,563
18.884
116.999
81,081
6,147
202.660
233,266
42,639
1
10,241
I
392.9331
163.3141
134,644
77.588
85.450
363.867)
1.079,278
172.570
275.002 .
1
1
1,4151
4.503.748
• 3.435,702
541.655
2.733.587
2.147.953
992.370
8.950.762
3,126.414
517.440
$429,182.41
273.826.19
1.950
3.233
1.027
12.274
4.336
208.705
65.998
2.050.050
92.569
7,365
94
5,486
20,899
99.876
108.481
87.646
82,397
672
47,103
6,386
333.628
286.835
150.232
148,498
1
971
24
445
3401
643
12
44.921.17
276.356.01
i 5,168
1 10,587
100
194.751.18
54,733.38
i 13.575
657.394.95
I 6.245
16.413
2,162
192.935.92
1
22,907.27
1
1
1 99.348
1
18,675
2.460,181
640.153
447,518
1
983.5951
1
2.744.6461
1
2.976
26,949.631
1
1 .40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.051
1
1
.031
1
1
i.ool.
1
'
1 $39,739.20
$1,807.25
$123,009.05
S38.409.18
$35,801.44
$49,179.75
$82,889.38
$2,976.00 .
$2,147,008.48
34 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943)
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Kind
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue)
Pickerel (Dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed Coarse . .
Caviare
TOTALS 27,966.956 26,949,631
1940
Pounds
3,597,785
6,368,617
4,364,071
1,216,234
2,118,383
2,515,381
147,143
34,678
2,471,482
806,897
401,934
1,119,538
2,799,865
4,948
1941
Pounds
3,736,972
6,369,932
4,412,137
1,101,136
1,620,949
2,311,413
99,348
18,675
2,460,181
640,153
447,518
983,595
2,744,646
2 976
Increase
Pounds
139,187
1,315
48,066
45,584
Decrease
Pounds
115,098
497,434
203,968
47,795
16,003
11,301
166,744
135,553
55,219
1,972
■1,017,325
* Net Decrease
APPENDIX No. 6
STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO— 1941
Kind
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue)
Pickerel (Dore)
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed Coarse .
Caviare
TOTALS
Quantity
Pounds
3,736,972
6,369,932
4,412,137
1,101,136
1,620,949
2,311,413
99,348
18,675
2,460,181
640,153
447,518
983,595
2,744,646
2,976
26,949,631
Price per
Pound
.05
.11
.11
.06
.05
.11
.40
.07
.05
.06
.08
.05
.03
1.00
Estimated
Value
$186,848.60
700,692.52
485,335.07
66,068.16
81,047.45
254,255.43
39,739.20
1,307.25
123,009.05
38,409.18
35,801.44
49,179.75
82,339.38
2,976.00
$2,147,008.48
APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VALUE OF FISH TAKEN FROM THE WATERS
OF THE PROVINCE
1922—1941 INCLUSIVE
1922 $2,807,525.21
1923 2,886,398.76
1924 3,139,279.03
1925 2,858,854.79
1926 2,643,686.28
1927 3,229,143.57
1928 3,033,944.42
1929 3,054,282.02
1930 2,539.904.91
1931 2,442,703.55
1932 $2,286,573.50
1933 2.186,083.74
1934 2,316,965.50
1935 2,633,512.90
1936 2.614.748.49
1937 2.644.163.49
1938 2.573 640.97
1939 2,564,516.37
1940 2.226,418.18
1941 2,147,008.48
Thirty-Sixth AniJiyol Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
PRINI'IID BY ORDER OF
1TIE I,EGISIATIVE ASSEMBLY OF OISITARIO
SE,SSIONAL PAPER No. 9, -1944
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Publis^hed by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 4 4
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontaiio.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
The uaderHigaed haa the hoaour to pre.seat tlie Thirty-sixth Aanual Report of the
Department of Game aad Fisheries for the Province of Ofcitario, for tlie year ending 3 1st
March, 1943.
Respectfully submitted,
G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Deportment of Game ond Finhci-ies.
1
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Department of Game and Fisheries of Ontario
TO :THE HONOURABLE G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries:
SIR—
I have the honour to submit to you herewith the Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the
Department of Game and Fisheries* outlining a summary of the activities of the various
Departmental services, and including condensed statistics for the fiscal year ended March
31st, 1943, as well as certain comparative tables.
INTRODUCTORY
The natural resources of a nation form the foundation of a stable economic superstruc-
ture and its resultant wealth.
Wild-life is an integral part of the natural resources of the Province of Ontario, and
an evaluation of its worth will show that it is an important part of the total economy of the
entire Dominion. Briefly, it provides a measure of food and clothing, (fish, flesh and fur),
through the usual channels of industry and through the sporting activities of countless
thousands of our residents to whom its pursuit affords pleasure and healthful exercise; it
creates employment for thousands of our citizens in the important fur industry and its
related activities, in the commercial fishing industry, in the manufacture and supply of
necessary equipment, as well as for an army of guides, whose business it is to know where and
how it may be obtained; it is the greatest asset of our tourist trade, in normal times one of
the principal industries of the Province, and which plays an important part in fostering
those friendly relations which have prevailed and which now prevail between us and our
neighbours to the south.
"While the economic value of the wild-life of this Province can thus be computed in
monetaiy terms, it has a moral and recreational value which is of even greater importance
particularly to our own residents, for it is the incentive which attracts countless thousands of
people into the great outdoors, where the environment of field and stream is conducive to
health, happiness and good citizenship.
Wild-life is a public trust- in which eveiy citizen of the Province has an equity, and
the administrative policies of the Department have been formulated and developed on that
premise. It is essential that this division of our natural resources shall not be impaired and
that its perpetuation shall be assured. Having this in mind the work of the Department
has been directed towards the protection and rehabilitation of these resources and the
progressive development of conservation policies intended to promote wise use without
reduction of existing stock. Details of how these plans have been advanced during the period
under review, as well as information on the present status of such resources, will be found
elsewhere in this report.
The broad policy of conservation which has characterized administrative control for
more than three decades has assumed a new importance during the present emergency. The
public liae become deeply conscious of the value of conservation as an aid to economic security
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ihrough the necessity for regulating supply and demand as determined by our war effort.
This in turn has emphasized the contribution which wild-life makes to the food supply of the
nation, and the necessity for public co-operation in its protection and sane use. The success
of Departmental plans for maintaining an adequate reserve of fish and game to meet ever
increasing demands depends in large measure upon public support, and it is pleasing to note
that this phase of the conservation programme continues to receive encouragement and
i^timulation through the efforts of organized sportsmen.
Despite the national emergency and the curtailment of many activities occa-sioned
thereby, provision has been made whereby it has been possible to carry on the essential work
of the Department for the achievement of the foregoing objectives.
FINANCIAL
The following table shows the totaJ revenue collected by this Department during this
particular fiscal year. It outlines the various sources from which this revenue is derived
and in detail gives the respective amount collected from each of these sources: —
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 3lst, 1943
ORDINARY-
MAIN OFFICE
GAME—
Licenses —
Trapping
Non-resident huntn
Deer
Moose
Gun
Dog
Fur Dealers
Fur Farmers
Tanners
Cold Storage
Royalty
FISHERIES—
Licenses —
Fishing
Angling
(Commercial)
Royalty
GENERAL—
Licenses —
Tourist Camps
Guides
Fines .. .;
Costs Collected ( Erif orcemeiit of Game Act)
Sales— Confiscated Articles, etc
$ 39,602.45
93,245.00
118,083.55
4.372.50
102,244.90
6.450.55
26,288.00
6.250.00
130.00
209.00
396,876.01
122,032.15
74.355.00
306,263.85
380618,85
10,152.32
6.565.00
6340.00
13.405.00
17.718.20
546.01]
14,779.25
$518,908.16
$390,771.17.
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Rent,
3,149.00
L758.55
1,315.56
Commission — Retained by Piiovjl.'. ... -ale of Licenses
Miscellaneous - . . . .
52.671.56
Net Ordinary Revenue
$962,350.89
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The total collections represent a decline of more than $220,000.00 a.s compared with the
jevenu(? produced in the previous fiscal year. The principal reason for this decrease is the
reduced amount of fees received from the sale of non-resident licenses, both angling and
Ir.mting. In 1941-42 the revenue from the sale of these licenses reached the impressive total
of $600,884.95. The amount received this year from this source was S399.508.85. a decrease
of more than $201 '000.00. This decrease had been anticipated and was unquestionably due
) a condition to which reference was made in our previous Annual Report, viz: — the United
-tates now being involved in war would necessarily result in restrictions on travel and trans-
ortation facilities, which with the added necessity of stern application to the producton of
]tal war material, would undoubtedly result in a very noticeable decrease in the number of
\merican citizens visiting this country for vacation purposes. Other important reductions
1 the collection of revenue when compared with that of the previous fiscal year will be
Ml)served in the amounts received from the sale of commercial fishing license.s^ which
decreased $13,500.00. from penalties imposed on those convicted of violations of provisions
of the Game and Fisheries Act, and from the sale of articles confiscated following .such con-
ictioris, which decreased $16,000.00' and from fur royalties, which decreased $8,500.00. It
tnay, however, be of interest to make reference to the fact that the amount of $231,151.56
received from the sale of various types of hunting licenses to residents of Ontario was
?29,000 00 in excess of the amount derived from the same source in the preceding year.
The following tables include details with reference to the sale of hunting and angling
licenses:
ANGLING LICENSES ISSUED
Non-resident : —
Individual (Seasonal) 27-330
Individual (Three-day) 31,597
Family 14.388
Manitoba Resident r. 697
Boys' Camp 20
HUNTING LICENSES ISSUED
. . Resident: —
Deer 31.530
Deer (Camp) 373
Deer (Farmers') 7.288
Moose 780
Gun 118,268
Non-resident : —
Small Game L473
Deer 1^518
General '9^
Bear (Spring Season) 232
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statem^^:- '' '^'''-^'-^' ^oth ordmary aad capital, are set forth m the followiog
EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st
1943.
ORDINARY—
Main Office
General
$ 52,385.16
39,950.68
Enforcement .„ 209.647.93
Game Animals and Birds 17.949.05
MacdJannid 3 573 20
Biological and Fish Culture Branch 205,599.97
Grants 5,400.00
Wolf Bounty 33,606.62
Special Warrant— Bear Bounty 3,640.00
Total Ordinary $571,852.61
Capital 2,879.88
Total Expenditure *574.:32.49
The principal items of expenditure were made for the payment of salaries and expenses
of members of the Enforcement Service and for the maintenance of services provided by the
Biological and Fish Culture Branch in connection with the raising, distribution and the
planting of fish in suitable waters throughout the Province. More details of the work
performed by these two important branches of the Department will be found further on in
this report.
There is an additional item of expenditure included in this statement, i.e., for the
payment of bounty on bears killed in certain sections of the Province, as provided by the
Order-in-Council dated August 19th, 1942, more details of which regulation and expenditure
nre also incorporated later on in this report.
The sum of $5-400.00 which was provided for the payment of grants was allotted aa
follows:— $2,500.00 to the Ontario Fur Breeders Association to augment the funds of this
organization and to permit them to continue their services on behalf of fur farmers who are
established and operating in Ontario; $500.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and
Hunters for their educational campaign, one of the principal objectives of which is to
emphasize the importance of proper observance of provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act;
$500.00 to Professor W. J. K. Harkness for his services in connection with fish culture research
and which services are supplementary to those provided by Departmental Biologists; and the
remainmg $1,900.00 to Mr. Jack Miner, Mr. Thomas N. Jones and Miss Edith L. Marsh, who
provide sanctuaries for birds, both migratory and native species, on their properties located
respectively in the counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey.
From the year's operations it will be noted that there was a surplus of $387,618.40'
which may be considered a satisfactory condition.
The following table details* Departmental revenue and expenditure for the various fiscal
years from and including the period ended March 31st, 1936:—
ANNUAL REPORT 1942-43
Revenue Expenditure Surplus
(Ordinary & Capital)
1935-36 $ 683,938.72 $451,041.91 $232,896.81
1936-37 782,217.63 474,128.95 318,088.68
1937-3S 866,558.19 563,938.33 302,619.86
1938-39 914,475.24 575,437.79 339,037.45
1939-40 1,015,350.82 568,198.55 447,152.27
1940-41 .'. 984.800.69 512,834.70 471,965.99
1941-42 1,183,269.29 576,762.26 606,507.03
1942-43 962,350.89 574,732.49 387,618.40
GAME
Herewith is a summaiy of conditions as they apply to the various species of game
anJrnaJs and birds found in Ontario, which information has been compiled from reports secured
from officers of the enforcement service throughout the Province: —
DEER: — Generally speaking in those portions of the Province in which the regular open
f-eason for the hunting of deer has been in effect conditions with reference to the prevalence
of these animals have continued to be quite satisfactory. The period during which they
may be lawfully taken as at present provided is not excessively lengthy, and those sportsmen
who avail themselves of this opportunity for recreation have displayed an earnest desire to
co-operate with the Department in complying with various regulations which govern and
which have been provided by the Legislature and which are established on the premise that
they are necessary for the future welfare of the existing deer herds. There is good reason
to believe that the fine quality of hunting which is at present available in the various deer
sections of this Province will prevail for the enjoyment of generations to come, provided
there is no relaxation in the present regulations which apply and that the existing co-operation
of hunters continues, and also that there arises no contingency detrimental to the existence of
this species which is at present unforeseen. In many areas in the extreme southwestern
portion of the Province in which this species has been provided the protection of an entire
closed period for the past several years there has been a noticeable increase in the number of
tliese animals and which improvement has resulted on some occasions in complaint to the
Department regarding damage to field crops. The popularity of this branch of hunting is
levealed in the fact that the number of Ontario residents who purchased licenses to hunt deer
during the open season of 1942, exclusive of those who purchased farmer's licenjses, showed
an increase of twenty-five per cent over the number who purchasd such licenses during the
previous year, or an increase of 6,305 in actual numbers.
The general open season for deer in Division (d), i.e., Southern Ontario, exclusive of
the southwestern counties and certain eastern counties, was provided by order-in-council
to extend from November 2nd to November I7th. The same period of open season was also
piovidod for that portion of the County of Carleton lying west of the Rideau River, (excepting
the Township of Marlborough) and for the Township of Roxborough in the County of
Slormont. In the Counties of Simcoe, Dufferin, Grey and Bruce and the northern portion
of the County of Huron the hunting of deer was permitted during the period from November
16th to 21st, with the provision that no dogs were to be used during this open season.
The Counties of Northumberland, Durham and Prince Edward and that portion of the
County of Ontario lying south of the north boundaries of Brock and Scott Townships as well
as the Township of Cambridge in the County of Russell, were included among the areas in
which the hunting of deer was prohibited at all times.
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MOOSE :^-Conditions applicable to moose showed no important changes during the year.
Some slight increase was reported in scattered areas in the northern uortion of the Province
which are favourable to their existence, but as a general rule they are not found in sufficient
numberfc- to justify any extensive hunting. The protection at present provided would appear
to be essential for the continued existence of this species. The usual period of open season
provided by the Game and Fisheries Act was in effect m Northern Ontario, while a restricted
period of open season, extending from October 15th to 30th. 1942, was established by Regula-
tion effective in those portions of the Districts of Nipissing, Sudbury and Temiskaming defined
in clau.se (i) of subsection (b) of Section 7, and in the District of Rainy River and those
portions of the Districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay defined in clause (ii) of subsection (b)
of Section 7 of the Game and Fisheries Act.
CARIBOU: This species exists only in very limited numbers and in but few isolated
fAreas. The hunting of caribou is prohibited at all times, and this complete protection would
appear to be quite necessary for the majntenance of this species even in its present limited
proportion^.
ELK: — Little improvement has been reported from the various sections in which these
animals are to be found. The original stock was brought into the Province several years ago
from Western Canada, and limited numbers were liberated on subsequent occasions in suitable
portions of the Counties of Bruce and Peterborough, and in the Districts of Nipissing, Sud-
bury, Algoma and Thunder Bay. Some specimens are also located on Beausoleil Island in
Georgian Bay off the county of Simcoe. • The original importations were placed on the
Petawawa Crown Game Preserve- in the County of Pembroke, where numerous specimens
still exist.
BUFFALO: — These animals are to be found only on lands in (he Burwash Crown Game
Preserve in the District of Sudbury, where they were placed after being brought from Alberta
in 1939. Little increase has been reported.
BEAR: — Bear continue to be quite plentiful throughout (lie nortliern portion of the Provmce
and increased numbers were reported from man5'^ areas. The hunting of this species provides
some measure of sport and recreation and as has been stated previously in this report, the
Department disposed of two hundred and thirty-two non-resident liceiLses for the taking of
bear during the 1942 spring season, i.e., from April 1st to June 15th.
During the year a regulation was provided to authorize the payment of a bountv of
?10.00 on each bear killed in defence or preservation of live-stock or property. Tiiis regu-
lation applied only to bears over the age of twelve months which had been killed in^ any
township in which not less than twenty-five per cent of the total area is devoted to agriculture
and which are located in Northern Ontario, the Districts of Parry Sound, Muskoka and
Haliburton and in the Counties of Bruce, Frontenac, Hastings- Lennox and Addington,
Peterborough, Renfrew and Victoria, and was payable only in respect to bear killed by a
resident of the Township in which such bear was actually killed.
RABBITS: — Reports received in the Department would indicate that the various species
of rabbit y^hich inhabit the different sections of the Province were quite plentiful, and
boeaking generally, there would appear to have been some increase in their numbers in many
districts. Cotton-tail rabbits prevail throughout the western and central portions of southern
Ontario, the European hare, or jack rabbit, throughout the southwestern counties generally,
while hnow-shoe rabbiia, or varying hare, are to be found m tne northeru and eastern portiom
of Southern Ontario and tmoughout that portion of the Provmce lying north and west of the
Mattawa and French Rivers and Lake Nipissing. In some portions of the south-central and
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eastern counties some decrease was reported d\ie to the prevalence of fox. The hunting of
rabbits continued to provide excellent sport during the late fall and early winter months for
a multitude of interested sportsmen.
PARTRIDGE: — During the period under review there was some decline throughout the
Province in the numbers of partridge, though the various species of this fine game bird
continued to be sufficiently plentiful to warrant the provision of a short open season, with a
restricted take. The general open season, which was effective, covered two periods- viz:
October 3rd to 17th and November 2nd to 14th, with a limit of five birds per day and not
ntore than twenty-five in all over the two periods. In the Townships established as Regulated
Game Preserve Areas the dates on which partridge could be taken coincided with those
provided for the taking of pheasants therein, with a limit of five birds per day. The shooting
of partridge was also permitted in the County of Lambton on O^ctober 31st, and in the
counties of Essex and Kent, on October 29th, 30th and 31st,, with a bag limit in each case of
five birds per day.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— There are but few sections of Ontario which these birds are
reported to inhabit, and those areas are restricted in extent, being chiefly in the extreme
southwestern counties and in two or three of the eastern counties. Such as are to be found
here have resulted from ne-stocking undertaken by the Department in previous years.
8hootmg of this species was restricted to the Counties of Essex and Kent, on October 29th,
30th and 31st, with a bag limit of two birds per day.
PHEASANTS: — In 1942 the Department was responsible for the distribution of 22,399
plieasa.nts, comprised of 20.986 poults, 1171 adult hens and 242 adult cock birds. The actual
purchase price was $17,400.60. These birds were liberated under the supervision of Depart-
mental field officers' principally" in the various ToMmships established as Regulated Game
Preserve Areas, and which distribution totalled 20.070 birds. Of the remainder 2,200 were
liberated in suitable areas in a few additional Southern Ontario counties, while various
branches of the Ontario Bird Dog Association were allocated 129 birds for use in connection
with their spring and fall bird dog trials. Details of this distribution are set forth herewith,
and in all cases except as indicated the birds so liberated were poults: —
Rerulated Game Preserve Areas: — County of Brant, (three townships— Burford,
South Dumfries and Onondaga), 710 birds; County of Elgin, (five townships. Aldborough,
Bayham, Dorchester South, Dunwich and Malahide), 1,000 birds; County of Haldimand,
(ten townships— Canboro, Dunn, Moulton, Cayuga North,Cayuga South, Oneida, Rainham,
Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole), 1830 birds of which 10 were adults; County of Halton,
(four townships, — Esquesing, Nassagaweya, Nelson and Trafalgar), 1554 birds of which 204
were adults; County of Lambton, (one township — Plympton), 195 birds; County of Lincoln,
height townships— Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grimsby North, Grimsby South, Grantham,
liouth and Niagara), 1665 birds; County of Middlesex, (two townships — Westminster (part)
and Metcalfe), 500 birds; County of Norfolk, (four townships — Middleton, Townsend. Wind-
ham and Walsingham), 1020 birds; County of Ontario, (three townships — Pickering, Whitby
East and Whitby West), 1315 birds of which 205 were adults; County of Oxford, (two
townships — Dereham and Oxford East), 546 birds; County of Peel, (five townships — Albion,
('aledon. Chinguacousy. Toronto (part) and Toronto (Gore), 1714 birds, of which 229 were
adults; County of Prince Edward, (one township — Maiysburgh South), 120 birds; County
of Welland, (eight townships — Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, Stamford, Thorold,
Wainfleet and Willoughby), 1935 birds; County of Wellington (one township — Puslinch)
3(X) birds; County of Wentworth (eight townships — Ancaster, Barton, Beverley, Binbrook,
Glanford, Flamboro East, Flamboro West and Saltfleet), 2100 birds of which 300 were adults;
and the County of York, (seven townships — Gwillimburj' East, Gwillimbuiy North, King,
Markham, Scarborgugh Vaughan and Whitchurch) 3361 birds of which 441 were adults.
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General: — County of Essex. 1000 birds; County of Kent, 700 birds, County of Lambton
(excluding Plympton Township), 405 birds; County of Leeds, 30 birds; County of Peter-
borough, 45 birds; and the County of Wellington, 20 birds.
Miscellaneous: — Ontario Bird Dog Association — 129 birds, 24 of which were adults,
for Niagara, St Catharines, Toronto and London trials.
The favourable conditions which resulted from a satisfactory natural hatch and the
intensive re-stocking previously outlined encouraged the provision of special regulations for
the shooting of pheasants in certain areas, as detailed herewith :
U) On Pelee Island the dates provided were October 28th, 29th, and 30th, 1942, with
a limit of four birds per day, one of which was to be a hen. Hunters participating, in
addition to having the regular hunting license as provided by the Game and Fisheries Act,
were also required to be in possession of the special hunting license which the municipality of
Pelee Island was authorized to issue for such hunting.
(b) In the Township Regulated Game Preserve Areas, other than the Townships of
East Oxford and Plympton, pheasant shooting was permitted on October 23rd and 24th, with
an additional day, October 28th, being made available for such shooting provided this last
mentioned date was approved by the Controlling Organization in each respective Township
area. The date provided in the Township of East Oxford was October 24th, and in the
Township of Plympton, October 31st. Special hunting licenses were also required of
sportsmen participating in this shoot in these Township Regulated Game Preserve Areas.
Bag limits were three cock birds per day.
(c) In the Counties of Essex and Kent such shooting was permitted on October 29th,
30th and 31st, and in the County of Lambton on October 31st. In these counties the bag limit
was three cock birds per day.
QUAIL: — These birds are not at all plentiful, and in a great proportion of the Province are
practically non-existent. Their prevalence is restricted to the more southerly counties, and
the conditions pertaining thereto have been such that it has been impossible to permit
hunting of this species in any areas except the counties of Essex and Kent. The Regulation
which was provided in 1942 permitted such shooting only in the aforementioned counties for
three days, October 29th, 30th and 31st, with a bag limit of four birds per day.
DUCKS: — Conditions applicable to ducks continued to be quite satisfactory. In most areas
they are reported to be fairly plentiful with some improvement noticed in various sections.
The several varieties which cross Ontario in their southerly fall migration provided excellent
opportunities for recreation for the goodly number of hunters to whom this branch of the
sport of hunting has an especial appeal. The regi:'iati©ns which are in effect for their pro-
tection are provided under the Migratory Birds Convention Act by the Federal Government
with the co-operation of the various Provinces of the Dominion, and conditions were suffi-
ciently satisfactory to warrant an extension of fifteen days in the period during which they
could be legally taken in the year 1942.
GEESE: — The areas in which favourable wild goose shooting is available in this Provmce
are extremely few and scattered The best, sections possibly are those along the western shore
of James Bay and in the extreme southwestern counties. Hunting of this species is regulate)
by provisions of the Migratory Birds Convention Act, and as in the case of wild ducks the
period of open season was extended in 1942 for fifteen days, except in the Counties of Essex,
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Kent and Elgin, where the extension was limited to two days, thereby permitting such
shooting over New Year's Day (1943).
WOODCOCK; — These birds as a general rule are quite scarce throughout There are but
few sections in which they can be hunted with any degree of success, which areas may be
stated as located in some of the counties along the shore of Lake Erie and one or two
adjoining counties to the north thereof, as well as in a few of the eastern counties. The
period of open season established by the Migratory Birds Convention Act which governs,
viz : — October 1st to 31st, applied throughout the Province.
SNIPE: — It may be stated that this species as a general rule is not too plentiful, though there
are some scattered localities in which successful hunting prevails, principally in the more
southerly counties of the Province. The reguJations for their protection and shooting thereof
Lre provided by the Migratory Birds Convention Act, and in 1942 the bag limits were reduced
fiom twenty-five per day to twenty per day and not more than two hundred for the season,
which extended over a period of two months, from September 15th to November 15th in
the northern division and from October 1st to November 30th in the southern division.
PLOVER: — Reports would indicate that plover are not at all plentiful in any section of
the Province, and while some improvement was observed in a few sections, conditions
generally were such that the protection of an entire closed season again prevailed throughout
1942 with respect to this ^species. As in the case of wild ducks, wild geese, woodcock and
snipe the regulations which apply are provided under the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
The following . information with reference to the various species of fur-bearing animals
which inhabit Ontario has been assembled from reports submitted by members of the
Departmental Field Service Force: —
BEAVER: — In the southwestern and southeastern counties these animals are not at all
plentiful due to the lack of favourable habitation. In the remaining sections, and more
particularly to the north, there is every indication that beaver are fairly plentiful, with some
improvement in their numbers being reported from numerous areas. This condition may be
attributed in some measure to the protection they have received in past years when a
cflmaplete closed season' prevailed and in more recent years when only a limited period of open
season has been provided in suitable areas during the first part of December. A regulation
was adopted which provided an open season from December 1st to 21st, 1942, for the taking
of beaver in that portion of Ontario lying north and west of the French and Mattawa Rivers
and Lake Nipissing (excepting therefrom the District of Rainy River and portions of the
Districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay lying south of the main transcontinental line of the
C.N.R. and west of the line of the C.N.R. running south-easterly from Superior Junction to
Fort William), in the Districts of Manitoulin, Parry Soiind, Muskoka and that portion of tht
District of Nipissing lying south of the Mattawa River, and in the Counties of Victoria,
Haliburton, Peterborough, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Froatenac and Renfrew. All
persons who trapped beaver during this open season were required to have proper trapping
licenses and each trapper was authorized to take not more than ten beaver. In addition,
and in view of complaints regarding damage to property by beaver, an open season extending
from November 1st to 30th, 1942, was provided in the county of Grey. Only residents of
this county were permitted to trap during this open season, and each trapper was permitted
to take not more than ten beaver. In this case the pelts were disposed of by the Department
and the pioceeds were remitted to the trappers concerned. Departmental returns show that
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24,194 pelts were taken during these periods of open season, and it has been estimated that
their value to the trappers was practically $779,000.00 The average value of these pelts was
almost fifty per cent in excess of that received for such pelts during the season of 1941.
FISHER: — ^These animals are practically non-existent in Southern Ontario, and they are
extremely scarce in the northern portion of the Province. But few specimens are taken
during the regular trapping season and there has been a steady annual decline in the catch.
FOX: — This species continued to be very plentiful throughout almost the entire area of the
Province. This prevalence was responsible for a condition which was detrimental to the
welfare of domestic poultry stocks as well as that of native game birds, with the result that
enforcement officers were authorized by the Department to permit the hunting and trappmg
of foxes in southern Ontario for an additional fifteen days, or until March 15th, 1943, as a
means of further reducing the numbers of these predators. Organized fox drives were carried
on thoughout the open season in many of the southern counties, while some Municipal
Councils continued to pay bounty on foxes which were killed within the limits of such
municipalities. There was a slight reduction in the number of red fox pelts which were
taken during the year but increases were reported with respect to the number of cross fox
silver fox and white fox pelts which were taken in the prevailing open season, though the three
last mentioned varieties of this species are not at all plentiful anywhere in this Province.
LYNX: — This is another one of the species which are very scarce. As in the case of Fisher
tiiey are practically non-existent in Southern Ontario, and trappers are successful in taking
but few specimens in the north. There is little variation in the numbers which are trapped
from year to year.
MARTEN: — Continues to be extremely scarce. This is another species which has practically
ceased to exist in the south portion of the Province. There has been a steady decline in the
annual catch, no indications of any general improvement have bfeen reported, nor does it
appear that such improvement can be anticipated.
MINK: — Favourable conditions continued to exist quite generally throughout the entire
Province, and trappers again were rewarded with a measure of satisfactory results from their
operations for the taking of mhik. This is one of the species contributing in an important
v/ay to the revenue derived by licensed trappers from the sale of pelts of fur-bearing animals
taken by them, and the return from the sale of mink pelts taken during the 1942-43 season
was exceeded only by such returns from the sale of muskrat and beaver. While it would
appear from reports that the number of mink was about normal in the south, some increase
in their number is reported from most sections of the north.
MUSKRAT: — While there was a decrease in the catch of muskrat taken during the period
of the open season which preyailed in 1942-43 as compared with that of the previous season,
it may be stated that insofar as this species is concerned fairly satisfactory conditions again
prevailed. Due to varying conditions which exist in different sections of the Province, the
limited period of open season which was provided by Regulation was established in these
different sections to coincide with prevailing weather conditions which would be favourable
to trapping operations. Muskrat pelts were again the principal source of revenue derived
by licensed trappers.
It has been estimated that in 1942-43 more than $1,446,000.00 was received by trappers
from the sale of their muskrat pelts. This amount is slightly in excess of that derived
from the same source in the previous year, notwithstanding the fact that the total number
of pelts taken was 80,000 less. The sum referred to represents forty per cent of the total
proceeds derived by trappers from the sale of all pelts taken in their trapping operations.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43 11
OTTER: — This species is not at all plentiful anywhere in Ontario, and there would appear
to be little, if any, c|iange. There was a decrease in the number which were taken by licensed
trappers during the open season which prevailed,
RACCOON -.—These animals are to be found only in Southern Ontario. They are not at all
}>lentiful. and there are but few sections in which even slight improvement has been in
evidence. The number which is reported to have been taken during the open season which
l)revailed in the period under review would represent the average catch of more
recent seEisons.
SKUNK:— While these animals continue to be quite plentiful throughout the entire Province,
there was a considerable decrease in the number taken and disposed of by trappers. The
number reported taken is only slightly more than fifty per cent of the catch reported in the
previous year. It is altogether probable that trappers generally are not greatly interested
in this particular species.
WEASEL:- This species is reported to be fairly plentiful throughout Ontario. The number
taken duiing the season shows a considerable decrease when compared with the previous
season's total, and it is possible that the demand for weasel was not sufficient to encourage
intensive trapping operations.
The following comparative table shows the numbers of pelts of the several varieties of
iur-bearing animals taken by licensed trappers, and which were either exported or dressed, in
each fiscal year since 1939-40: —
1939-40 1940-41 1941-42 1942-43
Bear 295
Beaver „ 33,530
Fisher . '. 1,382
Fox ( Cross) 981
Fox (Red) ' 19,925
,Fox (Silver or Black) 101
Fox (White) 36
Lynx 514
Marten 1,790
Mink 36,518
Muskrat 689,706
Otter 4,101
Raccoon 14,493
Skunk 74176
Weasel 95,832
Wolverine : 2
From information supplied to the Department by licensed fur-dealei-s it has been
estimated that the value to the trappers of the pelts taken during 1942-43 was $3,545,937.52.
The principal species contributing to this total in the order of their importance were muskrat,
beaver, mink and the several varieties of fox, the returns from these pelts being ninety per
cent of the entire total value.
I'elts taken from animals raised on licensed fur farms, viz: — silver or black fox, cross
fox, blue fox and mink, and disposed of during the year by the operators of such fur farms,
were estimated to have realized the sum of $1,489,501.45, an increase of more than $450,000.00
a» compared with the results of operations in the preceding year, and thus making the value
of tlie total fur production of the province for tlie year 1942-43 the sum of $5,035,438.97, as
fompared to a total of $4,207,144.53 for the year 1941-42.
274
384
288
21,605
25,1)97
24,194
858
884
691
722
1,780
2,649
15,059
32,215
31,297
67
206
265
91
114
185
383
537
552
1,439
1,652
1,417
38,976
63,996
60,331
739,224
722,387
042,810
3,931
3,880
3,557
11,973
13,499
13,420
72,005
94,656
48.337
53,719
80,776
62.553
2
3
6
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FUR-FARMING
A declining market for raw furs during the pelting season in the fall of 1941, an increas-
ing cost of feed a;nd a scarcity of nece.ssary help caused some further recession in the fur
farming industry in the year under review. Dujing this period there were some 1,475 fur
farmer's licenses issued, a net decrease of nine per cent. In spite of the unfavourable pros-
pects mentioned 154 of these licenses were for newly established fur farms.
As is indicated in the following table, mink and foxes are ajid have continued to be the
principal species propagated. Experiments in connection with the raising of fisher, marten,
muskrats and beaver were negligible and devoid of definite results. Mink were raised on
981 farms, and while silver foxes are still the principal other species, there is considerable
interest being displayed in the new type foxes, i.e. white marked foxes which were raised on
122 fur farms, and platinum foxes which were raised on 62 fur farms.
BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS
as at Januarj'' 1st.
1940
Beaver 4
Fisher 27
Cross Fox 168
Red Fox 96
Silver Black Fox 18,327
Blue Fox 209
♦Platinum Fox
♦White Marked Fox
Lynx ' .2
Marten ^19
Mink 31,989
Muskiat 235
Otter 2
R accoon 243
Skunk ^ : 10
*New type foxes previously included with silver bla^ck foxes.
Transactions undertaken by fur farmers during the year 1942-43 as recorded with the
Department, show disposition of pelts from stock raised on such licensed premises, as follows:
85,493 Mink, 79,244 of which were exported, and the remaining 6,249 dressed witliin the
Province.
27,563 Silver Black Foxes, 18,254 of which were exported and the remaining 9,309 dressed
within the Province.
' 1,333 Blue Foxes, 1,296 of which were exported, and the remaining 37 dressed within th?
Province.
166 Cross Foxes, 122 of which were exported, and the remaining 44 dressed within the
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
During the period under review the only addition which was made to the system of
Crown Game Pre,serves prevailing throughout the Province was the establishment of an area
in the District of Patricia as a beaver sanctuary. This area is designated as the Albany River
1941
1942
1943
13
18
21
26
16
15
134
112
68
65
73
96
16,034
15,630
12,901
397
644
595
125
1379
2
2
2
16
19
15
34,277
38,650
29.345
179
119
52
2
0
0
139
124
121
7
5
2
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43 13
Bounty and
Brush
Pups
Total
Expenses
614
22
, 1,743
$25,058.12
400
8
1,146
16,477.43
577
37
1,813
40,593.77
497
32
1,464
33.606.62
Beaver and Fur Preserve. The boundaries may be generally described a^s follows:— on the
north the Albany River ,on the west the Chipie River, on the south the Kwataboahegan
River, and on the east the westerly shore of James Bay The regulation which governs was
provided at the request of the Department of Mines and Resources for the Dominion of
Canada to permit of the restocking of the area with beaver, and to control the annual take of
l»eaver therein, if and when such trapping is authorized, and to provide a restricted and con-
trolled trapping ground for the benefit of resident Indians. This is the third such sanctuary
so established.
The system of Regulated Game Preserve Areas which has been in effect during recent
joars was extended to include the Township of East Oxford in the County of Oxford.
WOLF BOUNTIES.
■ The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty statistics and
payments for a period of four years ending with the 1942-43 fiscal period:—
Period Timber
For the year ending March 31, 1940 1,107
Yor the year ending March 31, 1941 738
For the year ending March 31, 1942 1,199
For the year ending March 31 1943 935
Various factors have influenced the prevalence of wolves and the number taken,
including the basic rate of bounty, enHstments in the armed forces and employment in war
industries, and the abundance of game, but weather conditions would appear to be the most
important. The winter of 1942-'^ 3 was exceptionally severe and during this period only 714
wolves were taken. Generally speaking fifty per cent of the wolves are snaJred and the special
wire i*eq\iired for this purpose is not available at present,
SUMMARY OF WOLF BOUNTY CLAIMS
County Tim'ber Brush Pups Total
Brant 0 112
Bruce 8 18 0 26
Frontenac 8 9 5 22
Haldimand 0 10 1
Halton 0 2 0 2
Hastings 9 1 0 10
Lambton 0 10 1
Lanark 1 Q 0 1
Leeds ^ Q 1 0 1
Lennox & Addington 10 13 0 23
Lincoln 0 10 1
Norfolk 0 9 0 9
Northumberland 0 10 1
Ontario 13 0 4
Peru. 0 10 1
Peterboro 11 0 0 11
Prince Edward 0 1 0 1
Renfrew 26 6 0 31
H
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 (1944)
Simcoe 3 8 5 16
Victoria 18 0 9
Welland 0.2 0 2
York ..„ 0 2 0 2
Total in Counties 78 88 11 177
District
Algoma
Cochrane
Haliburton
Kenorgy
Manitoulin
Muakoka
Nipisaing
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River
Sudbury
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total in Districts
Grand Total
iber
Brush
Pups
Total
68
72
6
146
19
1
0
20
20
0
0
20
271
70
2
343
20
45
8
73
26
4
0
30
65
13
0
78
58
5
0
63
67
7
0
74
82
59
0
141
76
92
0
168
4
1
0
5
85
47
5
137
861
416
21
1,298
939
504
32
1,475
There were 1,120 claims submitted in respect to 1,475 wolves. These, together with four
•claims in respect to 4 wolves outstanding as at April 1st, 1942, were considered. Fourteen claims
•with respect to 15 wolves were rejected for the following reasons: — 8 of the pelts were domestic
dogs, 1 was a red fox, on 4 pelts insufficient evidence was produced, and 2 of the wolves fitom
which pelts were submitted were not killed by the applicants making the claims.
Information assembled from the applications for bounty which were forwarded to the
Department shows that 449 of these wolves were destroyed bj'- farmers, 715 by Indians and
trappers, 203 by huriters, rangers^ guides and tourist outfitters, and the remainder by miscel-
laneous persons.
Previous to November 1st, 1942, these wolf pelts were returned to the respective persons
who had taken the same, but the regulation which provided for such disposition was repealed
on the date mentioned, since when such pelts have been delivered or made available to the
Seamen's Fur Vests War Project for manufacture into garments for saiilors, both in the Naval
Service and Mercantile Marine. The number of wolf pelts of which such disposition was
made during the period between November 1st, 1942, and March 31st, 1943, was 1,005.
Reporting in connection with this endeavor by the Seamen's Fur Vests War Project,
Mr. Alexander D. Schatz, Chairman of the Ontario Division, stated in a letter to this
Department : —
"We take pride in pointing out that this voluntary War Effort on the part of
ttie Fur Industry of Ontario had the fullest support and co-operation of employers and
workers, as well as the generous assistance of lastitutions, Organizations and numerous
individuals."
A^^NUAL REPORT, 1942-43 15
Of interest in this connection is the following letter addressed to the Seamen's Eur
Vests War Project by the Commanding Officer of one of the vessels in the Canadian Naval
Service: —
"Not so long ago 25 Fur-lined Jackets came aboard this ship. Their arrival was
watched with interest by members of the crew, most of whom had been out on the North
Atlantic before, and knew just how cold it can get out there, and what protection your
jackets afford. In due course they were distributed, and once again the eager eyes were
evident.
If you could come aboard some night when we are at sea and watch how your
Jackets are passed about by members of the crew going on and coming off watch, this
letter of thanks would not be necessary. Each member of the crew stands 8 hours on
watch duty per day, but your Jackets are on 24 hours duty.
On behalf of the ship's company, I wish to take this opportunity to thank your
. . ..organization for this splendid and much appreciated gift."
GENERAL
TOURIST OUTFITTERS:—
Further rationing of gasoline and additional travel restrictions or other difficulties
attributable to present war-time conditions again had an adverse effect on the tourist traffic
to and within the Province. Many of the tourist outfitters' camps 'were affected by these
conditions, particularly those catering to the transient tourist and those which are accessible
only to road traffic. It may be stated that such unfavourable conditions were responsible for
the reduction in the mim^per of tourist outfitters' camp licenses which were issued to cover
operations during the year under review, viz : — 615, which number was 50 less than the number
of such licenses issued for the previous year. Of these licenses 565 were issued in favour of
resident operators and the remaining 50 in favour of non-resident operators.
These camps are located in districts set forth in the following tabulation: —
Algoma 87
Cochrane 7
Kenora 144
Manitoulin ■■ 50
Nipissing - 86
Pariy Sound 100
Patricia • 2
Rainy River 42
Renfrew 14
Sudbuiy 54
Temiskaming 7
Thunder Bay 22
Total 615
BEAR BOUNTY:—
The C>rder-in-Council which gov^erned the payment of bounty on bears was dated the
I9th of August, 1942, and was applicable to bears killed during the period between August 1st
and November 30th, 1942. This bounty was paid on a total of 364 bears which were destroyed
Ift DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FLSHERIE.S No. 9 (1944)
in accordance with the provisions of this Order-in-Council. Applicatioa'i for the payment of
bounty on an additional 22 bears were refused for various reasoas, the principal reason being
that the bears had been destroyed in Townships which were not in the proper classificatioji
regarding agricultural development, and this condition applied in respect to 14 bears. Rejection
of claimg was also made for the following reasoas: —
2 killed before August 1st, 1942.
4 killed by persons not residents of the Township in which the bears were killed.
1 killed in a Crown Game Preserve.
1 killed by a person other than the applicant.
Grateful acknowledgement is made of the valuable co-operation of Agricuitural Repre-
sentatives and other officials of the Department of Agriculture who provided the neces.sary
information to enable our Department to determine which Towaships were within the classi-
tication stated in the Regulation, i.e., those in which not less than twenty-five per cent of the
total area was devoted to agriculture.
The following statistical table indicates the total number of bears killed in each of the
Districts and Counties, and in respect of which applications for the payment of bounty were
submitted: —
County or District . Total
Algoma 10
Cochrane 20
Kenora 6
Maaitouhn 7
Muskoka 12
Nipissmg ' 37
Parry Sound 32
Rahiy River 10
Sudbury 43
Thunder Bay 79
Temiskaming 24
Haliburton 12
Bruce ....^^., 7
Frontenac ..'::.: ^....,... 8
Hastings 23
Lennox & Addington 6
Peterborough 3
Renfrew - 44
Victoria 3
386
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT: —
Amendments to the Game and Fisheries Act which were adopted by the Legislative
Assemblj^ provided: —
(a) For the exportation by non-resident anglers of the lawful catch of one day's fishing
or the lawful catch of two days' fishing in the case of commercial fish taken from
Great Lakes.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43 17
(b) That the prov^isioa of Section 65 (Trespass) would not apply in the case of person^
travelling oa water with fishing tackle so encased or dismantled as to prevent its
use whil^ in transit.
Regulatioas additional to those already referred to in other portions of this report were
adopted, and provided : —
(a) An open season for black and grey squirrels in Southern Ontario, on November
5th, 6th, and 7th, 1942^ with a bag limit of five per day.
(b) That it would be unlawful for any person to take minnows in excess of a total
weight of forty pounds from the waters of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching,
during the period from October 1st, 1942, to March 31st, 1943.
(c) That it would be unlawful to hunt deer or moose in the open season in the territory-
lying within one and ;one-half miles on either side of Highway No. 70, between
Kenora and Fort Frances.
(d) That certain Townships in the District of Algoma, as enumerated, be transferred
from Division "C" to Division "B" for the purpose of the open season for deer
and moose.
ENFORCEMENT
Enforcement of provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and other legislation which
has been provided for the protection of game and fish in Ontario, such as the Migratory Birds
Convention Act and the Dominion Special Fishery Regulations, is assigned to the regular
8taff of Game and Fisheries Overseers, and the services performed by the members of this
branch of Departmental services play an important part in maintaining and improving our
efforts towards the conservation and preservation of the game and fish resources of this
Province. These services are augmented by the co-operation provided thoughout the year
by members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force, and by the services of seasonal overseers
who are engaged periodically, but more particularly for the purpose of providing additional
patrol services through the critical fish spawning periods in the spring of the year. Considerable
assistance is also received from the many hundreds of interested persoas who voluntarily act
as Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens, without remuneration, under the authority of their
annual appointments. Quite a proportion of the.se Deputy Game Wardeas are appointed on
the recommendation of the Municipal Councils of the Townships which have been established
as Regulated Game Preserve Areas and for the most part these appointees are active only in
the Townships in which they reside.
The duties of the officers to whom is entrusted this work of enforcement are greatly
assisted by reason of the active co-opferation received by them from the majority of sportsmen
who in more recent years have become convinced of the necessity for proper observance of
the various provisions bf the Game and Fisheries Act which are essential for the adequate
protection and conservation of thia division of our natural resources. Such a satisfactory
condition is to a very great extent attributable to the educational programmes undertaken by
the Fish and Game Protective Aasociations, and other organizations having similar objectives,
and which associatioas and organizatioas now exist in practically every section of Ontario.
Nevertheless it is still true that there are occasioas on which it is necessary for our
enforcement officers to make seizures and undertake subsequent prosecutions for offences
iuvolviuK violations of provisions of this protective legislation.
During the period covered by this report the seizure of articles from offenders was
reported in a total of 1448 cases. Such seizures were made by Game and Fisheries Overseers
18 DEPARTMENT QF GAME AND FISHERIES No! 9 (1944)
in 1272 cases, by Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens in 45 cases, by Provincial Police
Constables in 25 cases and by members of various Municipal police forces in 20 cases. Co-
operative action by Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police resoilted in seizures
in 63 case?, and in tha remaining 23 cases by co-operative action on the part of Overseers and
members of Municipal Police Forces
The following is a summary of the articles which were confiscated in these seizure cases:
Live animals and birds in 3 cases
Birds, game animals and meat - in 225 cases
Fire-arms and ammunition .-„„„ in 668 cases
Fish in 174 cases
Nets and fishing equipment in 137 cases
Angling equipment in 113 cases
Pelts and hides in 261 cases
Traps and trapping equipment .., in 86 cases
Motor boats, rowboats, canoes in 19 cases
Outboard motors in 5 cases
Motor vehicles in 7 cases
.^Flashlights and lanterns in 22 cases
• Spears ; '. in 43 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 57 cases
The apparent discrepancy as between the actual number of cases in which seizures were
reported and the total of the above summary would be accounted for by reason of the fact that
iu mani^ of the instances a combination of articles was seized, such as fire-arms and game, nets
and boats, fishing tackle and fish, pelts and traps, spears and artificial lights, and so forth.
^ Details of the fire-arms which were confiscated are as follows:^ — single-barrel shotguns
87, double-barrel shotguns 82, automatic shotguns 4, repeating shotguns 44, 410 gauge shotguns
12, combination shotgun and rifle 3, 22 calibre rifles (various types) 337 heavy calibre rifles
85, .25- .20 calibre rifles 13, revolvers 6, and air guns 25.
Confiscated pelts of fur-beaiing animals were as follows: — 291 beaver, 3 fisher, 34 fox,
(Silver Black, cross and red), 1 lynx, 160 mink, 800 muskrat, 13 otter, 35 raccoon, 15 skunk,
79 squirrel, 90 weasel as w«ll as 66 deer and moose hides.
The miscellaneous articles which were seized included two axes, two bicycles, 316 duck
decoys, eight ferrets, seven grappling poles, two hounds, fifteen packsacks and haversacks and
two trunks or suitcases.
With reference to prosecutions, charges were laid in 1210 eases This action resulted in
convictions and the imposition of penalties in 1,146 of these cases. The charges laid were
dismissed by the presiding magistrates in 54 of the remaining cases, while in the balance of 10
cases the charges were withdrawn. In the cases in which convictions were registered, the
informations were laid by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 1,085 instances, by Provincial Police
in 22 instances, by joint action by Overseers and Provincial Police in 8 instances, by Municipal
Police in 24 instances, and by private land-owners (trespass) in 7 instances. In actions which
were dismissed the informations were laid by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 46 instances, by
Provincial Police in 1 instance, and joint action in 7 instances. Charges were withdrawn
in 9 instances by Game and Fisheries Officers and in 1 instance by the Provincial Police.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43 19
REPORT OF THE FISH CULTURE BRAl^CH
I^'ish cultural operatioiLS were carried on during the year in tWenty-seven provincial
government hatcheries and rearing stations. Due to #krtime conditions there was no
expansion of the hatchery system to include new plants, and only proper maintenance and
essential repair work were undertaken.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
A detailed account of distribution of hatchery reared fish by county or district, species,
age-class, and number planted is given in appendices 1 and II. In the following paragraphs,
comparison of the year's distribution with that of the previous year and other pertinent data
are given. The total output of all species for the year was approximately 14% higher than
in 1941-42.
Speckled Trout:
The distribution objective was 3,000,000 speckled trout yearlings, but the year's total
was somewhat lower, namely 2,918,500. Due to congestion at the Dorion Trout Rearing Station
it was necessary to plant a fairly large number of fingerlings, namely 380,000. For the same
reason smaller numbers wei;p planted from -Hill Lake, Sault Ste. Marie, Chatsworth and Cod-
rington. The private hatchery at Caledon had approximately 170,000 fingerlings which could
not be accommodated; these were distributed as effectively as pos,sible in suitable and publicly
fished waters. On the whole, approximately 60% more fingerlings were planted as compared
with the preceding year.
Brown Trout:
The production of brown trout yearlings, was 3.8 per cent, greater than that of the
preceding year.
Rainbow Trout:
Distribution of rainbow trou.t yearlings was 9.8 per cent, greater than in 1941-42.
Kamloops Trout:
This species was introduced to a number of carefully selected lakes in Ontario, and it
promises to provide excellent game-fish possibilities, at least in some of the lakes chosen.
During the year 24,800 yearlings were planted as compared with 25,000 in 1941-42.
Lake Trout:
Due to inclement weather which occurred during the lake trout spawning season in the
fall of 1942, the egg collection was somewhat reduced. As a result the distribution
of fry aod fingerlings for the year under discussion was correspondingly reduced. The total
production of eyed eggs, fry and fingerlings was 18 per cent, less than that of the preceding
year. However, over 10,680 yearling lake trout were planted, which should have a compen-
satory and equalizing effect.
Whitejish :
The number of whitefish planted was approximately 5 per cent, greater than that of
the preceding year.
20 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
Herring :
The collection of herring eggs at Glenora and Kingsville hatcheries was more than twice
that of the preceding year, an increase of 114 per cent.
yellow Pickerel (Pike-perch) :
A favourable increase of 32 per cent, over last year's distribution of eyed eggs and fry
of yellow pickerel was realized.
S?nall-rnouthed Black Bass:
One of the main annual objectives as regards bass cuJture is to increase the output of
bass fingerlings by using all the facilities available as effectively as possible. In this we were
successful to the extent of increasing by 4 per cent the previous year's output.
Large-mouthed Black Bass :
The culture of large-mouthed bass in two ponds at the Mount Pleasant hatchery was a
JHiccess. Compared with the preceding year's production, the pei'centage increase of fry and
fingerlings was 68 per cent, and 8 per cent, respectively.
Yellow Perch :
Annual collections of perch spawn from Lake Erie in the vicinity of the Kingsville
hatchery vary greatly in abundance from year to year. Although 24,000,000 fry were planted
this year this number was 24 per cent less than that of the preceding year.
Maskinonge:
Compared with the preceding year there was a decrease of approximately 25 per cent,
m the distribution of fry, and 53 per cent, in the distribution of fingerlings.
Weather conditions have a pronounced effect on sTJCcessfuJ spawning and hatching of
maskinonge. The spawning, hatching and feeding seasons in 1939 and 1940 were good, because
the seasons were late, followed by mild and favourable weather. Changeable weather follow-
ing an early opening is decidedly unfavourable.
The effect of weather conditions is most striking on the spawning grounds in the Pigeon
River. The Pigeon River receives considerable warm surface water from the sinrounding laud,
opens early and provides a maskinonge spawning s'eason of comparatively short duration. A
short spawning season, generally speaking, reduces the percentage hatch. On the Lakfield
spawning grounds, conditions are quite different. Owing to the large body of ice which forms
in Stony Lake each winter the spawning season for maskinonge is later, and the hatchability
and general conditioh of the eggs are much better.
Reduction in the number of maskinonge fingerlings may also be attributed to weatner
conditions. Unsatisfactory weather conditions interfere with the spawning of suitable minnows,
resulting in a poor yield and retarded growth of the minnows. When live minnow food,
which is the most, important item in the diet of m*iskinonge fingerlings is interfered with the
normal growth and production of maskinonge suifec.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-i3 21
CLOSED WATERS
Establishing closed water areas is one of the practical methods employed in maintaining
and improving the fishing in our lakes and streams. The closed area acts as a source of
supply for replenishing the immediately adjacent open area with the natural increase provided
year after year. If closure is continuous the area becomes a sanctuary of very great practical
value.
The waters in the following list were closed during the year April 1, 1942, to March 31,
1943, to supplement those already closed :
ADAM LAKE
Unorganized territory north of Clay Lake between Fluke Lake and Segise Lake, District
of Kenora. Closed for maskinonge propagation. Adam Lake is a feeder of Clay and Segise
Lakes.
GEORGIAN BAY (Portion located as follows:)
■ (a) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Electric Island;
(b) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Lot 51, Concession VIII.
Township of Harrison, District of Parry Sound;
(c) An area lying east of and extending approximately 2 miles along the shore line
opposite Concessions XIII and XIV, Township of Harrison, District of Pariy
Sound.
HARVEY CREEK (Nogie's Creek)
Townships of Galway and Harvey, County of Peterborough. Sanctuary for maskinonge,
LUKINTO LAKE
Unsurveyed temtory, 12 miles east of Longlac, and 6 miles north of Seagram, District
of Thunder Bay. Closed to provide additional protection for speckled trout.
MASKINONGE CREEK
Part of Maskinonge Lake, and part of Little Vermilion Lake, Townships of Pickerel and
Vermilion, District of Kenora. Closed to provide additional protection for maskinonge
with a view to maintaining and if possible increasing the supply of maskinonge by
natural means.
TASSO, CAMP, BLUE AND CLEAR LAKES
Township of Finlayson, District of Nipissing. Closed to protect trout during winter
months.
<
TWELVE MILE CREEK
Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar on certain specified lots and concessions. County
of Halton. Closed to provide protection for small-mou.thed black bass so that the closed
area will help to replenish adjacent areas of the river from year to year.
WHITEFISH, CLEAR, PORTAGE AND BIG JOSEPH LAKES
Township of Humphrey, District of Parry Sound. Closed to winter fishing to protect
lake trout.
22 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
REMOVAL OF COARSE FISH
Hoop nets were operated at the outlet of Charleston Lake for the purpose of removing
ling. Owing to changeable weather conditions the spawning run was small ,although the
spawning period was more prolonged. The total catch of ling was 1,100.
Similar work was undertaken on Otty Lake, Township of North Elmsley, County of
Lanark. The total catch was 368 ling, weighing about 3 lbs. each, or a total weight of 1,104 lbs.
The purpose of operations on Loughborough L^ke and West Rideau Lake was to remove
quantities of whitefish and herring, and coarse fish. A trap net was set in Loughborough
Lake but only catfish were taken. After sounding and determining the type of bottom,
pound nets were set on what was considered the best whitefish grounds in West Rideau Lake.
Trap nets were also set on suitable whitefish grounds and the fish taken were game fish and
ling, the former being liberated and the latter turned over to fox farmers in the district.
P'rom November 15 to November 26, 1942, the following fish were taken from West Rideau
Lake: 308 lbs. of whitefish, 514 pounds of catfish, and 12,228 lbs. or approximately 6 tons of
Hng.
All the operations were under the direct supervision of local overseers or the hatchery
supervisor. Nets and other equipment were supplied by the Department and considerable
assistaDce was given by local residents. The whitefish and catfish were sold at a very nominal
price, and the ling were disposed of to local residents and fox farmers.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
At frequent intervals from April 27 until June 26, a study of the spawning of srnall-
mouthed black bass. Long Point Bay, Lake Erie, was undertakeq. It was not until June 23
that the first small-mouthed fry were taken off the nests. The study indicated the danger
of opening the season too early without substantial evidence of spawning conditions.
A study of two quarry ponds at Hagersville and a small pond at Guelph was made.
For the most part, technical studies were confined to the hatcheries and rearing stations
in connection with the care and feeding of the fish reared therein.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratoiy of the Department of Zoology, University
of Toronto, continued field and laboratory studies in Algonquin Park, limiting the work to
the more urgent and important needs of fish culture.
In co-operation with the Park Staff, 60,000 speckled trout yearlings, provided by the
Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries, were distributed as recorded in appendix I under
the District of Nipissing.
Another measure for the maintenance of good fishing is the alternate closure of lakes to
fishing, which was initiated in 1938 and has been continued as shown by the following table:
Number of
Year
lakes closed
1938
4
1939
5
1940
24 (the
1941
17
1942
20
(the 21 reported for 1940 and 1941 shovild read 24)
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43 23
The creel census is proving to be the most succes.sful means of determining the trends
in the abundance of game fish and although it does not give a complete record of the number
of fish taken it is a measure of both the total number taken and their availability or the
number taken per hour by anglers. Where the creel census is carried on continuously for the
same lakes and streams over a number of years it indicates the results of uncontrolled or
unlimited angling, angUng under controlled conditions as by alternate closure of lakes and
other remedial measures, such as stocking and introduction of forage fish which are being
applied as major experiments in fish culture. It is especially desirable to carry out the creel
census as a war time activity, as it gives a measure of the influence of the war on the number
of anglers, as well as information on the stocks of game fish which is a guide to post-war fish
culture needs.
The following table gives a summary of the creel census records for lake trout and bass
from those lakes in Algonquin Park for which information is available.
LAKE TROUT
Year 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Number of lake trout recorded 1414 3855 3083 4681 1827 2452 1832
Number of lakes for which
anglers have reported 23 51 41 59 24 47 44
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
Number of bass recorded 1202 1891 1694 1582 1640 1520
Number of lakes for which
anglers have reported 4 8 11 15 14 18
Number of bass recorded
from Lake Opeongo 688 '731 270 404 494 217
During 1942 the creel census recorded the valuable information that numbers of white-
fish were taken by anglers from Lake Opeongo and brown trout from Brewer Lake. The value
of the creel census is in direct proportion to the co-operation received from anglers to whom
iUuch credit is due for their active participation without which this important measurement
01 fish culture work could not be carried out.
It has been found that the whitefish, perch and suckers constitute the most important
lake trout food, particularly in Lake Opeongo. The small perch and perch fry are most
important from midsummer into the fall, and studies of the feeding and food supply of this
important forage fish have been continued.
The speckled trout living in the streams feed upon the aquatic i;isects which are present
in great numbers and which irjclude such well known forms as blackflies, midges, mayflies,
caddis flies and stpneflies. There is a marked variation in the numbers from year to year
which is shown by the following table giving the total insect emergence from one square yard
of the same stream each year over a period of years.
Total number of insects emerging
Year from one square yard of stream
1937 13,385
1938 15,077
1939 10,836
1940 13,504
1941 11,343
1942 16,553
24 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
L'nder natural conditions beavers frequently build dams in trout streams and in stream
improvement, dams and deflecting weirs are constructed to form deep pools of quiet water.
Such dams or deflecting weirs create changes in streams which have a marked influence upon
the insect fauna. The nature of this change is important insofar as it results in the production
01 different species and numbers of aquatic insects as compared to those present before such
•iaras are built. It has been learned that the aquatic vegetation which often appears as the
result of such dams definitely increases the number of insects, and further work is being
carried out to determine whether the aquatic insects produced in this way are available to and
constitute the food selected by the trout and to what extent the other conditions resulting
from the dams are favourable or unfavourable to trout production.
Examination of the fish of the Park waters shows that some of them cany fish parasites
and although none of' these parasites are injurious to man they may be quite harmful to
the fish. Much of the information from these studies is of value in the local fish culture
work, as it has been learned that: the same species of fish in different lakes carry parasites of
different kinds and degree of harmfulness which is a warning against indiscriminate transfer
of fish from one lake to another. There is a relation between the fish parasites and the food,
so that in a large lake fish in one area may be parasitized, while those in another area may be
free of that particular parasite, which suggests a possible approach to parasite control. Lakes
containing small-mouthed black bass had several species of fish infested with larval cysts of
the cestode, Protcocephahis ambloplitis, while fish from lakes that do not contain small-
ruouthed black bass do not carry this cestode."
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In closing this report I desire to express my appreciation of the excellent spirit of
co-operation which has been displayed throughout the year by^the Ontario Federation of
Anglers and Hunters and its various constituent Game and Fish Protective Associations,
und by the officials and members of the Northern Ontario Tourist Trade Association, as well
as others who are interested in the services rendered by this department on behalf of hunters,
anglers and trappers. Such contacts cannot but be of inestimable value and assistance to us
in the performance of duties required in connection with the proper administration and conduct
of the Department.
Regarding the work of the staff. May I state lliat nienibeis of the Departmental
Service generally have been very conscientious in carrying out their duties and courteous in
their contacts with the public in their efforts to produce the best results.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries.
I
ANNUAL REPORT. 1942-43
25
APPENDIX No. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITEES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
APRIL 1, 1942, TO MARCH 31, 1943.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce 70,000
Huron 401000
Lambtoa 20,000
Victoria : ; 55,000
Total 185,000
FINGERLINGS
Haliburton 1,000
Lincoln 1,500
Muskoka 4,000
Nipissing 1,100
Simcoe 2,000
Victoria 6,000
Wentworth 1,500
York 2,000
Total 19,100
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant : 15
York : 175
Miscellaneous 100
Total „..., 290
SMALL -MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce „ 60,000
Dundas 5,000
Elgin 60,000
Frontenac „ 55,000
Grenville 8,000
Grey 40,000
Hastings 27,500
Hii ron ,. 20,000
Lanark 20,000
Leeds 30,000
Lennox-Addington 30,000
Manitoulin 105,000
Middlesex 60,000
Muskoka 120,000
Nipissing : 100,000
Parry Sound 500,000
Peterborough 100,000
Prince Edward 15,000
Sudbury 25,000
Timiskaming 15,000
Waterloo 105,000
Wellington 40,000
Total , 1,535,500
FINGERLINGS
>^lq:oma 66,600
Brant 359
Cochrane ^ 2,000
Durham • '500
Fi-ontenac 30,250
Haldimand 2,000
Haliburton 6,000
Halton , . 1,000
Hastings 9,000
Huron . 1.000
Lanark 15,500
Leeds .. . 13,000
Lennox-Addington 3,000
Manitoulin 233,500
Muskoka 21,000
Nipissing 18,800
Northumberland 2,000
Ontario 1,000
Oxford 1,000
Parry Sound 26,000
Peterborough 19,000
Renfrew 6.500
Russell .. 1,500
Simcoe . ... _ 16,700
Sudbury 192,200
Thunder Bay 11,350
Timiskaming 2,000
Victoria 13,000
Waterloo 1 ,000
Welland 1,500
Total 718,259
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant 122
Hastings 822
Manitoulin 387
Parry Sound 358
Peterborough 558
Miscellaneous 108
Total 2,355
MASKINONGE
Haldimand
Hastings
Leeds
Lennox-Addington
Manitouhn
Mu.skoka
Nipissing
Northumberland
Ontario
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Prince Edward
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont
Sudbury
Victoria
Waterloo
FRY
10,000
125,000
15,000
20,000
10,000
65.000
40.000
180,000
25.000
30,000
705.000
40,000
40.000
20,000
15,000
25,000
200,000
10,000
Total 1 ,575,000
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 (1944)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH. PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS,
April Ib't, 1942, to March 31st, 1943— Continued i
MASKIN ON GE— Continued
FINGERLINGS
Northumberland
Peterborough
Victoria
Total
MINNOWS
165
440
100
Haldirnand
Total .
705
600
500
PEKCH
Lake Erie -^ 23,175,000
Lake St. Clair (Mitchell's Bay) 1,000,000
Total 24,175,000
PICKEREL
EYED EGGS
Exchange ...., 1,000,000
Sale ... 200,000
Algoma 500,000
Bruce 1 -275,000
Grey 200,000
Muskoka :. 1 .500,000
Nipissing 3,000,000
Ontario 400,000
Rainy River 4,000,000
Simcoe 1 ,875,000
Sudbury 4,250,000
Wellington 250,000
Total - 18,450,000
FRY
Algoma 14,310,000
Bruce :• * -760^000
Carleton : 2.500.000
Cochrane 2,700,000
Frontenac 8.(K)0,000
Grenville 250,000
Haldirnand 250,000
Haliburton 2.050,000
Hastings 4 ,750,000
Kenora 63 .650,000
Kent : 500,000
Lanark 6.400.000
Leeds 2,950.000
Lennox-Addington 4 .700,000
Manitoulin 4.700,000
Middlesex 750.000
Muskoka 7,500,000
Nipissing. „ 9.900.000
Northumberland 7,500,000
Parry Sound 18,300,000
Peterborough 11,850,000
Prince Edward 8,250,000
Rainy River 24,500,000
Renfrew 10,600,000
Russell 500,000
Stormont 250,000
Sudbury 9.050,000
Thunder Bay - 1,000,000
Timiskaming 4.450,000
Victoria 3,450,000
Great Lakes 46,400,000
Total 283,310,000
BROWN TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Brant
Norfolk
Oxford
Miscellaneous
Total
YEARLINGS
Brant
Bruce
Durham ....
Elgin :....,
Gj-ey
Plaldimand
Halton
Hastings ....
Huron
Lambton ...
Lincoln
Middlesex
Norfolk
N orthumberland
Ontario
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Perth
Peterborough ....
Simcoe
Waterloo
Welland
Wellington
Wentworth
York
12,000
1,000
8.000
2.000
23,000
24,600
4.400
15,250
25.800
29,400
2.400
24,600
19.200
8.100
1,000
2,800
5.300
46.000
12.800
3.800
15,300
3.400
10,800
3,600
17,801
31.500
15.724
6.600
12.000
3,600
13.500
Total 359.275
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGGS
Exchange
Total
400,000
400,000
\
ANNUAL REPORT, 1942-43
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1942, to March 31st. 1943— Continued
LAKE TROUT -Continued
FRY
Frontenae 87,000
Hastings 20,000
Lennox-Addington 42,000
Nipissing 5,000
Peterborough 63,000
Great Lakes 150,000
Total 367,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoraa 415,000
Cochrane 36,000
Frontenac 85,000
Haliburton 365,000
Hastings 159,000
Kenora 452,600
Lanark 38,000
Leeds 65,000
Lennox-Addington 31,000
Manitouhn 45,000
Muskoka 390,000
Nipissing 296,000
Parrv Sound 335,000
Peterborough 10,000
Rainv Ruer 449,000
Renfrew 50,000
Simcoe 112,500
Sudburv . 245,000
Thunder Bay 145,000
Timiskaming 51,000
Great Lakes 11,654,500
Total 15,429,600
YEARLINGS
Bruce 1 ,200
Grey 1,500
Nipissing 4.980
Timiskaming 3,000
Total 10,680
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma 88,000
Manitoulin 5,000
Sudbury 18,000
Total 111,000
YEARLINGS
Dufferin 1,800
Elgin 500
Haliburton 1,000
Norfolk 3500
Simcoe 3,600
Woter' 2.000
"^ork __ 50C
KAMLOOPS TROUT
YEARLINGS
Bruce 2,400
Grey 1 ,800
Muskoka 15,400
Parry Sound 5,200
Total 24,800
SPECKLED TROUT
FRY
Miscellaneous — Sale 500
FINGERLINGS
Algoma 16,700
Grey 23 ,875
Peel 170,000
Thunder Bay 379,200
Timiskaming 40,000
Misc^lianeous 2,000
Total 631,775
Total 12,900
SPECKLED TROUT
YEARLINGS
Algoma
Brant
Bruce
Cochrane
Dufferin
Durham
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Hastings „
Huron
Kenora _
Lanark
Leeds ..
Lennox-Addington
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland
Ontario
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder bay
Timiskammg
Victoria
395,150
. 1,900
■ 11,840
145,800
15,500
21,800
8,000
53,035
108,700
49,800
101,500
4,050
4,200
21,200
1,400
47,200
1,500
111,000
159,000
249,675
18,100
37,781
3,800
900
96,100
8,000
54,990
99,050
24,800
415,350
424,942
198,100
3,100
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 \1944)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1942, to March 31st, 1943— Continued
SPECKLED TROUT— Continued
Waterloo
Wellington
4,800
7,200
York
2,000
Miscellaneous
■
7,250
Total
2,918,513
ADULTS
Algoma . . .
5,313
Grey
175
Thunder Bay
-
2,039
Total
7,527
WHITEFISH
EYED EGGS
Thunder Bay
250,000
FRY
Kenora 44,460,000
Manitoulin 13,000,000
Rainy River 17,500,000
Thunder Bay 1,000,000
Great Lakes 318,842.000
Total 394,802,000
HERRING
FRY
Lake Erie 430,000
Lake Ontario 18,000,000
Total 18,430,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1^42-43
21>
APPENDIX NO 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TOy SPECIES — 1938 TO 1942, INCLUSIVE.
— :4 —
Large-Mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings and Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings and Adulta
Maskinonge
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch
Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Adults
Pickerel (Blue)
Frv
Brown Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings ....
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fr>'
Fingerlings
Yearlings ...
Atlantic Salmon
Fingerlings ....
Yearlings ....
Rainbow Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs .
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Whitefish
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Herring
Fry
Miscelloneoua
I
TOTALS
1938
57,500
8,061
804.000
169,800
7,738
2.005,000
59,150,000
2,012,500
271.567,500
500,000
59,592*
2,437,000
7,665,000
10,575,200
4,800
321,600
6,727
25,821
1,000
373.314
2,083.538
4,452
323,700,500
49,725000
733,265,643
1939
1,890
497
1,386,000
226,325
7,739
120,000
2,675,000
1,300
72,360,000
7,000,000
327,500,000
29,954
375.070
1,845.850
7.236,900
9,964,400
109,635
23,145
1.009
105,000
337,000
2,976,559
6,315
326,657,000
38,550,000
41
799,496,629
1940
230,000
5,500
152
2,512,500
449,154
1,671
2,345,000
2,333
13.000.000
2,000,000
393,887,000
100
182,725
252,000
575,000
7,564,000
7,312,100
298,420
19.724
26,500
611,375
3,278,114
7,150
403,339,000
49.050,000
886,995,903
1941
110,000
17,700
100
1,911,500
691,925
2,254
2,100.000
1.494
31,600,000
4.500,000
223,490,000
60,000
346,188
800,000
913,000
18,066,400
164.000
11.750
88,150
25,000
394,000
3,060,174
16,732
375,960,500
8,630,000
672,960,876
1942
185,000
19,100
290
1,535,500
718,259
2,355
l,575,0(ib
705
24,175,000
18,450,000
283,310,000
23,000
359,275
400,000
367,000
15,429,600
10.680
111,000
12,900
24,800
500*
631,775
2,918,513
7,527
250,000
394,802,000
18,430,000
500t
r63.750.279
t Minnows.
♦Fry.
♦Yearling and adult*.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 (1944)
APPENDIX
STATISTICS OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN THE PUBLIC WATERS OF
EQUIP
District
I
INo.of
I Men
I
I
Ti]gs
Gasoline
Launches
Sail and
Row Boats
i I I I I I
No. I Tons I Value | No. i Value | No. | Value
I IS! ! S I I $
Gill Nets
Yards | Value
I S
Northern Inland Waters
Lake Superior
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Son+hprr? In^*nd Waters
i 624
I 358
123
349
271
95
814
528
174
3 I
11
5
13
10
44
35
324
110
347
224
615
10.500i 156
64,5001 111
29,8001 38
96,956i 114
78.0001 81
37
281.400
154
208
10
I
I 81
! -51
t 19
1 106
61
I 12
1200
|ll6
I 2
I
.040:
.580 j
,075 1
872;
.4001
.9351
.9001
,940i
.6051
243
77
31
126
25
58
117
110
12.9021 499
! 5,175| 892
1.6401 348
5,075 1 .364
2.10511.153
3,545)
9.030 2.147
4,644 1.266
83 i 3,855 1
I
.5601 63.S2S
.6111110.292
.0501 44,119
.8771162.174
.2691129.005
i
.0001291.565
.200; 129.261
.000 : 700
To+a]^
13336
86
1,655
I
561..156i 909 1653.34:
1 I
870 147.971
I
I
7.674.5671930,944
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
—,
^
ti
■^
9^
:. ^
0
District
■7^
o
~
-? '^
■?t)
X
^
i—
^
^^
-^
-y:
, ]b.^.
lb..
1
lb.<.
lbs.
„.
lbs.
Northern Inland Waters..
S.517
1.365.975
196.628
950,331
1,799
1.431.384
52.851
Lake Superior
1.392.450
319,655
1 .360,971
17,682
9
91.898
2.204
North Channel
11.511
84,945
123,414
54,155
■
25.971
3.520
Georgian Bay
51.822
583.922
1,274.333
35.526
26
54.658
463
Lake Huron
362.441
113.865
800,095
535
1.269
175,802
5.646
Lake St. Clair
13.309
2.252
57.773
2,976
Lake Erie
61.789
2.524.009
50
30,776
4.405.014
421.281
14.924
Lake Ontario
1.086.876
441.993
89.820
53.244
27.729
11.185
5.899
Soutihem Inland Waters
3.213
2.269.952
88.483
Totals
2.975.406
1
5.434.364
3.845.311
1,158.771
4.438.098
Values
$240,963.56
1
$1,081,522.28
$706,513 27
882,005.04
1
1
$487,636,201
I
$290,436.40
$40,534.58
ANNUAL REPORT. 1942-42
31
NO. 3
THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER- 31. 1942.
MENT
, . ^, ^ Pouna Hoop Du
and
Freezers and
Piers and
beine Nete j^^ts Nets Roll Nets
Night Lines
Ice Houses
Wharves
TOTAL
1 II III'
i 1
1
1
VALUR
. Yards \ Value i No.j Value | No. | Value No.j
Value
No. IVafuel No,
Value
No. Value
^
i $ 1 i S ! i -S 1
$
Hooksl $ 1
$
$
1
I
42
11 1 i
14,820 1 63 1 3,275 i 1
2
1,550
170 i 122
31,735
97
11,165
■229,437
1 50
20,6251 1 -1
67
19,630
56
12,290
284,092
i 36
16,4001 1 1 1
3
30
7,275
25
8,700
127,012
6 1 900
820 1 67
70,1801 39 1 450
1
2
12,600
2,280
53
16,100
54
41,344
502,253
i 97 i 62,900' i
3,300
600
48
21,325
16
4,435
359,770
19 1 5,000
3.650 jUO i 14,6501
3,900
301
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44,231
37 i 10,025
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18
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1,258,749
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31
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275,420
40 3.420
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20
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1 26,104
1 59
1.227
179,832
1 39
1 534,681
1 60,462.21
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58,419
4,471
1 29,672
66.371
1 2,163,457
1 398,911.63
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311,492
222,366
20,272
10,128
56,511
282
2,080,704
1 323,562.60
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33,001
1 96,680
133,315
258,719
207
598,232
1 53,036.56
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1 61,270
^ 235,373
1.317,391
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1 1,388,337.01
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1 60,616
219,570
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1 365,043.33
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1 72,128
211,949
253,127
546,123
31,886.65
18.578
i 1,565,444
1 435,859
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
No. 9 (1944)
APPENDIX NO. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Species
1941
Pounds
1942
Pounds
Increase
Pounds
Decrease
Pounds
Herring
Whjiefish
Trout
Pike - .
Pickerel Blue
Pickerel Dore
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
TuUibee
Carp
Catfish
Mixed and Coarse
Caviare
3,736,972
6,369,932
4.412,137
1,101,136
1.620.949
2,311,413
99,348
18,675
2,460,181
640,153
983,595
447,518
2.744,646
2.976
2.975,406
5.434,364
3,845.311
1.158,771
4.438,098
2269,952
88,483
18,578
1,565.444
435,859
841,594
315.646
2.990,624
2,637
57,635
2,817,149
245,97S
761.566
935.568
566,826
41.461
10.865
97
894,737
204.294
142,001
131,872
339
Total
26.949,631
26,380.767
*568.864
*Nct Decrease
APPENDIX NO. 6
STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Species
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel Blue-
Pickerel Dore
Sturgeon
Eels -
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse.
Cavfare
Total.
Quantity
Pounds
2,975.406
5.434.364
3.,845,311
1,158,771
4,438,098
2^269,952
88,483
18,578
1,565,444
435,859
315,646
841,594
2,990,624
2,637
26380,767
Estimated
Value
$240,963.56
1.081.522.28
706,513.27
82.005.04
487,636.20
290.436.40
40.534.58
1,060.93
164.636.15
68,403.21
31,999.00
47,934.80
124.466.51
3,859.25
$3,371,971.18
ANNUAL REPORT. 104243
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APPENDIX No. 7
ESTIMATED VAJLUE OF F£SH TAE<EN FROM THE WATERS OF THE PROVEN'CE
1923 - 1942
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
193C
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
$2386,393.76
3,139,279.03
2,858,854.79
2,643,686.28
3,229,143.57
3,033,944.42
3,054,282.02
2,539,904.91
2,442,703.55
2,286,573.50
2,186,083.74
2,316,965.50
2,633,512.90
2,614,748.49
2,644,163.49
2,573,640.97
2,564,516.37
2,226,418.18
2,147,008.48
3,371,971.18
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report
OP THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1943-1944
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 9, 1945
ONTARIO
TORONTO
^ Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
19 4 5
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ending March 31st. 1944.
I have the honour to be,
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
TORONTO 2,
March 21st, 1945.
THIRTy-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Department of Game and Fisheries of Ontario
T(r. THE HOiNOURABLE G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR:
I have the honour to submit to you herewith the Thirty-seventh Annual
Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, in wich is contained information
with reference to the activities of the various Departmental services, and in which
are included condensed statistics and comparative tables for the fiscal year ended
March 31st, 1944, and other information which will probably be of interest.
INTRODUCTORY
The period under review found the nation still at war, and all of its resources
directed towards crushing the forces of oppression which have threatened to over-
run our democratic civilization. This deflection of the national economy from the
usual channels of peace to the more urgent task of winning the war has added to
the difficulties of administration and is reflected in certain branches of Depart-
mental activity. Despite adverse conditions which have as a result prevailed the
normal operations of the Department have been continued and maintained at a high
level.
By reason of the urgency of the war effort, transportation difficulties and
the shortage of ammunition sportsmen have not been able to indulge as freely as
was possible in normal times in the twin sports of hunting and fishing. As a conse-
quence it is quite likely that fewer fish were taken and less game destroyed thus
leaving a larger adult stock for propagation purposes, and this should result in
increased natural reproduction.
Education along conservational lines has been stimulated through the
various campaigns sponsored by the many branches of Government and Industry,
to promote economy in the use of available resources, and the careful salvage of
every item that might be of value in the war effort. In any evaluation of natural
resources it is now generally recognized that wild-life forms an important part of
the total assets of the nation. It provides, among other things, food and clothing,
and is the incentive to outdoor recreation which is conducive to health and good
citizenship. For these reasons the wise use of such natural resources is imperative,
and the protection thereof is a patriotic duty. It is no exaggeration to say that the
public is more conservation minded to-day than ever before, and this attitude is of
great importance and assistance to the Department in its efforts to maintain suf-
ficient resources to meet demands which we have every reason to believe will
increase following the cessation of hostilities.
The vast extent of the land and water area of the Province, — some 412.000
square miles, — embraces in its physical features every requisite for the development
and perpetuation of our wild-life heritage. Its huge forest areas and wild lands;
its rugged geological formations; its swamps and marshes, bounded by areas of
rich agricultural land; and its sparkling lakes and free-flowing rivers; all these
constitute an environment capable of sustaining an abundance of wild-life, provided
the essentials of conservation are understood and practised. Such an extensive
territory, however, presents many problems which add to the complexity of adminis-
(1)
2 DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
tration. It involves extreme weather conditions, varied as to time and place; wild
and sometimes inaccessible terrain; diverse land uses, often adversely affecting
water conditions and natural habitat; and a multiplicity of destructive factors which
must be continually kept under control. In administering this valuable inheritance
the Department is guided by the necessity for protecting the capital stock, main-
taining an adequate supply and ensuring an equitable distribution. These three
phases are met by sound laws properly enforced, an extensive programme of fish
culture operations, and adequate sanctuary for all classes of game. A complete
resume of Departmental activities will be found herein.
FINANCIAL
Following is a summary of the revenue collected by the Department of
Game and Fisheries during the fiscal year under review, and this statement also
details the various sources from which these receipts were derived and the amounts
attributable thereto.
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1944
GAME-^^
Licenses —
Trapping $ 4 9,690.75
Non-resident hunting 89,450.00
Deer 115,395.90
Moose 4,69 7.00
Gun 75,152.65
Dog 6,808.00
Fur Dealers 30,130.00
Fur Farmers 6,370.00
Tanners 140.00
Cold Storage 213.00
$ 378,047.30
Royalty 145,595.45
$ 523,642.75
FISHERIES—
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 91,172.00
Angling 28 8,685.00
$379,857.00
Royalty 11,971.45
$ 391,828.45
GENERAL —
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 5,990.00
Guides 5.970.00
$ 11,960.00
Fines 14,418.70
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Act) 584.40
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 27,087.41
Rent 3,342.00
Commission retained by Prov. on sale of lie 1,973.20
Miscellaneous 235.69
$ 59,601.40
Net ordinary revenue $ 975,072.60
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 Z
The total of $975,072.60 is slightly in excess of the revenue which was
collected by this Department in the previous fiscal year when the sum of $962,35089
was secured as a result of our operations. Notwithstanding the prevalence of the
unfavourable conditions to which previous reference has been made it may be
stated the collection of revenue was not too adversely affected.
Reference to fluctuations in comparison with the previous year may be of
interest and the following comparisons are therefore detailed for information: —
Fees from the sale of non-resident hunting and angling licenses which in
1943-44 amounted to $378,135.00 were $21,373.85 less than the amount collected
from the same source in 1942-43. This is a condition which resulted from circum-
stances over which we had no control and was a decrease, though not of a very
substantial nature, which had been anticipated due to the difficulties of transpor-
tation and other conditions attributable to the necessity for devoting the utmost
time and energy to the intensive prosecution of the war effort.
Details in connection with the issue of non-resident licenses are as follows: —
ANGLING
Individual (Seasonal) 27,314
Individual (Three-day) 27,622
Family 12,593
Manitoba Residents 699
Boys' Camp 13
HUNTING
Small game 1,605
Deer 1,782
General 504
Bear (spring season) 157
Other declines in revenue included $29,098.01 from the sale of resident
licenses to hunt deer and moose, and gun and dog licenses, more than $27,000.00 of
which total was due to the decreased revenue from the reduced sale of gun licenses,
and this no doubt was by reason of the fact, among others, that certain types of
sporting ammunition were not readily available to those interested in hunting. Fees
from the sale of Tourist Outfitters' and Guides' Licenses decreased $1,445.00 and
penalties collected following convictions for violations of provisions of the Game
and Fisheries Act and Regulations decreased $3,261.10.
Details in connection with the issue of resident hunting licenses are as
follows: —
Deer 31,067
Deer (Camp) 371
Deer (Farmers') 6,858
Moose 854
Gun 87,504
The item of revenue which showed the largest increase was the sum derived
from the collection of royalties on the pelts of fur-bearing animals. These royalties
are collected upon issue by the Department of permits to authorize the exportation
from the Province or the dressing of such pelts. The amount collected from this
source in 1943-44 was $23,563.30 in excess of the sum derived from the same
source in 1942-43. Fees from the sale of trapping and fur-dealers licenses in
1943-44 increased $10,088.30 and $3,842.00 respectively. This is a total increase
of $37,493.60 in revenue derived from the operations of those actively engaged In
the raw fur industry.
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The revenue derived from the commercial fishing industry, that is from
the sale of fishing licenses and the collection of royalties, totalled $103,143.45,
which was $18,636.13 in excess of the total received from the same branch in the
previous fiscal period.
From the sale of articles confiscated from those convicted of offences
against provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act we derived in 1943-4 4 the sum
of $27,087.41, an increase of $12,308.16 over the previous years' revenue from the
same source. This substantial increase would be attributable chiefly to the fact
that the 374 beaver which were included in the sales of confiscated fur conducted
in 1943-44 were superior to the 313 beaver sold in 1942-43 and the further fact
that the public demand for such fur was reflected in increased market prices in
1943-44. The average price of beaver realized in the 1943-44 sale was $3700 as
compared with an average price of $16.00 in 1942-43.
During the year the total expenditures incurred by the Department, includ-
ing both ordinary and capital amounted to $574,525.05 and these were practically
equal to the 1942-43 expenditures. Details of these expenditures are set forth in the
following statement: —
EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st. 1944
ORDINARY —
Main Office $ 52,849.76
General 41,782.05
Enforcement 206,375.40
Game Animals and Birds 7,103.12
Macdiarmid 2,93 6.66
Biological and Fish Culture 204,043.51
Grants 5,400.00
Wolf Bounty 46,545 77
Bear Bounty 3,695.00
Total Ordinary $ 570,731.27
Capital 3,793.78
Total Expenditure $ 574,525.05
As compared with figures for the previous year the only important changes
in the amounts shown in these various sub-totals is an increase of $12,939.15 in
the payments of wolf bounties and a decrease of $10,845.93 in the expenditure
made for the purchase of game animals and birds for use in connection with our
re-stocking operations and the reasons for which are explained in other sections
of this report. As has been the case in the pa&t several years the most important
items of our expenditures occur in connection with the maintenance of the field
service engaged in providing enforcement of the Game and Fisheries Act and Regu-
lations and for the operations of the Fish hatcheries throughout the Province and
distribution of fish for the replenishment of fishing in suitable waters under the
supervision of the Biological and Fish Culture Branch, both of which services are
the subject of more detailed references further along.
The allotment for grants was distributed as follows: — $2,500.00 to the
Ontario Fur Breeders' Association to encourage their efforts to improve the Fur
Farming industry in Ontario; $500.00 to Professor W. J. K. Harkness for use in
his research work towards improving the practice which at present prevails in fish
culture operations; $500.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to be
used in their programme to improve the practice of conservation and secure
observance of the various provisions of the Legislation applicable to the sports
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44
of hunting and fishing; and the remaining $1900.00 in varying amounts was granted
to Mr. Jack Miner, Mr. T. N. Jones and Miss Edith L. Marsh in appreciation of their
services in providing sanctuary for migratory and native birds on their properties
located in the counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey respectively.
As will be noted capital expenditures were rigidly restricted and were made
simply to provide repairs and minor improvements to the fish hatchery properties
at Southampton, Normandale, Wiarton and North Bay, to the Departments' pro-
perty at the Macdiarmid fishing station on Lake Nipigon and to the bird farm
operating at Normandale.
The favourable balance of revenue over expenditure for the year was
$400,547.55.
The following table details departmental revenue and expenditure for the
fiscal years from and including the period which ended March 31st, 1936: —
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
Revenue
$ 683,938.72
782,217.63
866,558.19
914,475.24
1,015,350.82
984,800.69
1,183,269.29
962,350.89
975,072.60
Expenditure
(Ordinary & Capital)
451,041.91
474,128.95
563,938.33
575,437.79
568,198.55
512,834.70
576,762.26
574,732.49
574,525.05
Surplus
232,896.81
318,088.68
302,619.86
339,037.45
447,152.27
471,965.99
606,507.03
387,618.40
400,547.55
GAME
Herewith is a summary of conditions as they apply to the various species of
game animals and birds which are to be found in Ontario, and which information
has been compiled from reports submitted by our field officers throughout the
Province:
DEER: — In addition to the open seasons definitely established by provisions of
the Game and Fisheries Act in the various divisions which prevail, special regula-
tions affecting the deer season were adopted and created the following provisions,
viz:: —
(a) The open season in that part of Ontario lying south of the French and
Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing as defined in clause (d) of Section 7 of
the Game and Fisheries Act, in 1943, extended from November 8th to 20th.
(b) An open season in that portion of the County of Carleton lying west
of the Rideau River, from November 8th to 20th, 1943.
(c) An open season in the Counties of Bruce, Grey, Dufferin and Simcoe
from November 15th to 20th, 1943. In this instance the use of dogs for the
hunting of deer during this open season in these counties was not permitted.
(d) An entire close season throughout the year was provided to apply in
the Township of Cambridge (Russell County) and in the Township of Howe
Island (Frontenac County),
(e) In the following townships in the District of Algoma, viz: — Y, Z, 7Z,
5A,6A, 7A, 5B, 6B, 7B, 5C, 6C, 7C, 5D, 6D, 7D, 5E, 6E, 7E, 5F, 6F and 7F,
the open season was varied and in 194 3 extended from October 15th to
November 25th.
6 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
Advice from our field officers with reference to this fine species of game
animal would indicate that as a general rule very favourable conditions prevailed
during the period covered by this report. There were of course some exceptions, but
this is not unexpected in an area so extensive as that which is comprised within the
boundaries of the Province. There are many sections of Ontario in which settlement,
industrial development and the lack of suitable environment and cover have result-
ed in necessary migration and the consequent diminution of deer herds which
formerly inhabited such areas, but it can be safely stated that in those areas in
which suitable and desirable habitat is to be found deer continued to provide satis-
factory hunting for many thousands of our own hunters as well as for hundreds of
visiting sportsmen from the United States who participated in the joy and pleasure
which are derived from the recreation such sport provides.
These animals are reported to be plentiful in many sections of the northern
portion of the Province, extending from Lake Nipissing in the east to the Lake of the
Woods in the west, and the same conditions are reported from that portion of
southern Ontario below the French and Mattawa Rivers, north of the southern
boundary of the District of Muskoka and between the Georgian Bay and the Ottawa
River.
They are also reported to be numerous and increasing in many of the south-
western and southeastern counties in which the complete protection of an entire
closed season has been in effect for many years.
MOOSE: — This species is practically non-existent in the larger proportion of South-
ern Ontario. There are reports that specimens have been observed, though their
numbers are very scarce, in Victoria, Hastings, Addington, Frontenac, Renfrew,
Haliburton, Muskoka and Parry Sound, and little, if any, improvement has been
observed. They are more prevalent in the northern portion of the Province, but it
cannot be stated that they are more than fairly plentiful in any particular section.
Improved conditions affecting this species are reported from some sections of the
Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming, Algoma and Kenora. The sale of hunting
licenses for the taking of moose is quite limited as will have been observed in a
previous portion of this report, which fact might be construed as an indication that
such hunting is a branch of sporting activity which does not interest many sports-
men.
In addition to the open season for moose which is established by legislative
authority, a special open season was declared by Regulation to be effective in that
portion of the Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming and Sudbury defined in sub-
clause (i) of clause (b) of Section 7 of the Game and Fisheries Act to extend from
October 15th to 30, 1943.
CARIBOU: — The protection which has been provided for this species in the way
of an entire close season which has been in effect for the past several years through-
out Ontario has unfortunately not resulted in any very noticeable improvement or
increase in the number of the herds of caribou which inhabit this Province. They
are extinct in southern Ontario and only from the Districts of Cochrane, Sudbury,
the northern part of Algoma and Thunder Bay has their existence been reported
and even in such instances it Is atated by the officers concerned that they are few
in number, with little, if any, improvement in their condition or numbers.
EIjK: — Such of these animals as are to be found in Ontario at present are the
result of efforts undertaken by this Department in past years to establish this
species in the Province. The original stock was received from Western Canada
through the co-operation of the National Parks Branch of the Federal Department
of Lands, Mines and Resources. Some have been liberated in sections of Peter-
borough County, and in the Districts of Temiskaming (Township of French), Sud-
bury (Burwash Crown Game Preserve), Algoma (Chapleau Crown Game Preserve),
and Thunder Bay (Nipigon-Onaman Crown Game Preserve).
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Reports from most of these areas indicate some slight increase.
BUFFALO: — A small herd of buffalo was brought into Ontario from Alberta in
1939, and they were placed on the Burwash Crown Game Preserve. Improvement
or increase has been negligible.
BEAR: — These animals are fairly plentiful throughout the northern portion of
the Province and in the northern Districts of southern Ontario. While they do pro-
vide a measure of sport in which a goodly number of hunters participate, and in this
connection it is interesting to note that such hunting in the months of April, May
and June has an appeal for United States hunters who visit Ontario for this purpose,
nevertheless this species has in more recent years become somewhat of a nuisance,
particularly in some of the more thickly settled sections in the north, where they
have been responsible for damage among domestic herds and flocks, and due to this
very undesirable condition it has been necessary to provide a regulation to encour-
age the destruction of bears in such settled areas and under which regulation pro-
vision is made for the payment of a bounty on these animals which are killed in
certain defined areas. Detailed results of the operations under this Regulation are
included elsewhere in this Report.
RABBITS: — The three species of rabbit which are most prevalent in Ontario are
the cotton-tail rabbit, the European Hare (or jack-rabbit), and the varying hare
(or snowshoe rabbit). The cotton tail rabbit is found in most of the southern
counties, the jack rabbit in the southwestern counties, and the snowshoe rabbit in
the northern portion of the Province and in the northern districts and eastern coun-
ties of southern Ontario,
Reports to the Department indicate that as a general rule these animals
were plentiful, though there were areas in scattered portions of the Province in
which such conditions did not exist and in which these animals were reported to be
not so plentiful and their numbers somewhat decreased. Information regarding
diminished numbers of cotton-tail rabbits was received from a majority of counties
in southeastern Ontario, and advice of similar conditions with respect to the snow-
shoe rabbit came from eastern counties as well as from some of the northern Ontario
districts.
Generally speaking, rabbits continued to provide a goodly proportion of the
desirable hunting which is available, particularly in the late fall and early winter
months.
PARTRIDGE: — as a general rule reports were not so favourable regarding condi-
tions applicable to the various species of partridge as had been the case in previous
years, though they continued to be sufficiently plentiful to warrant the adoption
of a regulation which provided for an open season for the taking of these birds.
Two separate periods to constitute this open season were set out in the Regulation
which governed, viz: — from October 2nd to 16th and from November 8th to 15th,
1943. The later period was in effect throughout the entire Province, excepting in
Provincial Parks and Crown Game Preserves, and during the October period such
hunting was prohibited not only in the Parks and Crown Game Preserves, but also
in the Counties of Essex and Kent and in the Townships established as Regulated
Game Preserve Areas, though in Essex, Kent and Lambton and the Regulated Town-
ships provision was made for the hunting of partridge during the period which was
provided in these areas for the hunting of pheasants. The general bag limit was
five (5) birds per day, and not more than twenty-five (25) during the two periods.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE: — There are but few sections in the Province in which
these birds are to be found. They are reported to be not too plentiful in any parti-
cular area, and but little improvement has been observed. The sections in which
they are most plentiful are the very extreme southwestern and southeastern coun-
8 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
ties. This species is not native to the Province and such birds as do inhabit suitable
sections are the result of previous efforts on the part of the Department to establish
this species in Ontario. Hunting of Hungarian Partridge provided by regulation was
permitted only in the counties of Essex and Kent, on October 28th, 29th and 30th,
1943, with a bag limit of two (2) birds per day.
PHEASANTS: — The general policy of restocking suitable cover with En^'lish ring-
necked pheasants was continued during the year under review, but an unfavour-
able condition on the breeding farms, much of which developed as a result of a
serious lack of experienced help due to the demands of more necessary war ser-
vices, was followed by reduced production and the consequent large decrease in the
number of birds which was made available for purchase by the Department for
this purpose. We are able to secure only a total of 7,404 pheasants to meet all our
demands for general distribution and as a result the Department was great.y handi-
capped in its efforts to continue the previous policy. Extreme care was essential in
the matter of allotting shipments as they became available, and while requirements
could not be completed in any instance, officials in the Department who were res-
ponsible for the distribution displayed such a measure of diligence and care in the
details of organization that most of the Regulated Township areas received some
birds, even though the total required was not produced. This condition quite natur-
ally made it necessary that there should be some curtailment in the open season
which was provided and generally only two days' shooting was allowed in these
Regulated Townships.
Pheasants totalling 6,512 were distributed among the various townships in-
cluded in the scheme of Regulated Game Preserve Areas, 415 were liberated in the
county of Essex and a similar number in the county of Kent, while 2 5 of these birds
were placed in the Barkley Crown Game Preserve in the county of Dundas, and the
remaining 37 were made available to the St. Catharines Branch of the Ontario
Bird Dog Association.
Details of the distribution in the Regulated Townships are as follows: —
County of Brant, (three townships, — Burford, South Dumfries and Onondaga), 180
birds; County of Elgin, (Five townships, — Aldborough, Bayham, Dorchester South,
Dunwich and Malahide), 168 birds, 48 of which were adult birds; County of Haldi-
mand, (eight townships, — Canboro, Dunn, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Moulton,
Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole), 690 birds; County of Halton, (four townships, —
Esquesing, Nassagaweya, Nelson and Trafalgar), 495 birds; County of Lincoln,
(eight townships, — Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grimsby North, Grimsby South,
Grantham, Louth and Niagara), 743 birds, 19 of which were adult birds; county of
Middlesex, (two townships, — Metcalfe and Westminster), 92 birds, 37 of which were
adult; County of Norfolk, (four townships, — Middleton, Townsend, Windham and
Walsingham), 285 birds; County of Ontario, (three townships, — Pickering, Whitby
East and Whitby West), 430 birds, 70 of which were adult birds; County of Oxford,
(two townships, — Dereham and East Oxford), 98 adult birds; County of Peel,
(five townships, — Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto and Toronto Gore), 540
birds; County of Prince Edward, (one township, — South Marysburgh), 41 birds;
County of Welland, (eight townships, — Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham,
Stamford, Thorold, Wainfleet and Willoughby), 894 Birds; County of Wellington,
(one township, — Puslinch), 105 birds. County of Wentworth, (eight townships, —
Ancaster, Barton, Beverly, Binbrook, Glanford, Flamboro East, Flamboro West and
Saltfleet), 675 Birds; County of York, (seven Townships, — East Gwillimbury,
North Gwillimbury, King, Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan and Whitchurch), 1076
birds, of which 359 were adult birds. Except as is otherwise indicated all birds
distributed were poults.
Provisions of the Regulations which governed the open season for pheasants
were as follows: —
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ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44
(a) Pelee Island, October 28th, 29th and 30th, 1943, between the hours
of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., each day. Bag limit of four (4) birds per day, one (1)
of which was to be a hen. Hunters were required to have a special license issued
by the Pelee Island municipal authorities, in addition to the regular hunting license.
There was an additional regulation provided which prohibited all hunting
on Pelee Island from 6.00 p.m. October 21st until 8-00 a.m. October 28th, 1943,
which was the first day of the open season detailed in the preceding paragraph.
(b) Township Regulated Game Preserve Areas, (except Aldborough, Plymp-
ton, Bayham, Dorchester South, Dunwich, Malahide, Marysburgh South, Metcalfe,
Westminster, Middleton and Oneida), between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.
October 22nd and 23rd, 1943;
Aldborough Township, October 22nd, 1943, between the hours of 8.00 a.m.
and 5.30 p.m.; and
Plympton Township, October 30th, 1943, between the hours of 8. 00 a.m. and
5:30 p.m.
The bag limit was three cock birds per day. Hunters were required to pro-
vide themselves with special township licenses in addition to the regular hunting
license.
No open season for pheasants was provided in the townships of Bayham,
Dorchester S'outh, Dunwich, Malahide, Marysburgh South, Metcalfe, Middleton,
Oneida and Westminster. This was in compliance with the request from the respec-
tive Controlling Organization in these townships.
(c) Essex (excluding Pelee Island) and Kent counties, between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. October 28th, 29th and 30th, 1943; and Lambton County,
(other than Plympton Township), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
October 30th, 1943. Bag limit was three (3) cock birds per day.
QUAIIj': — There was very little change in conditions respecting this species of game
bird. Their numbers are not plentiful anywhere in the Province and they are to be
found in but few sections, principally the far south-western counties, though re-
ports were received of the existence of scattered small bevies in a few of the eastern
counties along the St, Lawrence River.
Hunting of this species was provided only in the Counties of Essex and Kent
on the same dates as those on which the hunting of pheasants was permitted, and
the bag limit was four (4) birds per day.
DUCKS: — The various species of this division of migratory waterfowl which cross
Ontario, particularly during the period of the southerly migration in the fall of the
year, continue to be quite plentiful, and reports would tend to indicate that the
hunting of wild ducks was greatly enjoyed by a goodly proportion of those who par-
ticipate in the hunting privileges which are available in Ontario. As has been stated
in previous Annual Reports the Regulations which govern the protection of wild
•ducks and under which hunting provisions are declared are established in accord-
ance with the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
In 19 43 the open season extended from September 15th to November 30th in
the northern division, and from September 25th to December 10th in the southern
division. The bag limit was twelve (12) ducks per day and not more than one hund-
red and fifty (150) during the period of the open season,
GEESE: — There are but few sections in which favourable wild goose shooting is
available in Ontario and these are contained in the territory adjoining the south-
western shore of James Bay and in a few counties in the extreme southwesterly
portion of the Province. They are observe-d during the period of migration in other
scattered areas, but in these instances conditions are such that favourable shoot-
ing is not available .
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The same period of open season prevails as in the case of wild ducks with
the exception that in the counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin the open season for
geese extends from November 1st to January 2nd. The bag limit is five (5) geese
per day and not more than fifty (50) during the period of the open season.
WOODCOCK: — While conditions as they apply to this species have shown some
improvement in a few sections of the Province, it cannot be said that they are in any
way plentiful. Successful hunting of woodcock has been available only in certain
southwestern, central and southeastern counties.
The open season in 1943 from October 1st to 31st was applicable through-
out the Province, and the bag limits were eight (8) per day and not more than one
hundred (100) during the season.
SNIPE: — Conditions with reference to snipe vary in different sections, and while
there are some sections in which they may be successfully hunted, as a general rule
they are not too plentiful.
The open season in the northern division extends from September 15th to
November 15th, and from October 1st, to November 30th in the southern division.
Bag limits were twenty (20) per day and two hundred (200) for the season.
PLOVER: — Thes birds are provided the protection of an entire close season
under the Migratory Birds Convention Act. There are no reports from any section
of the Province that they are plentiful though improvement has been noted in some
areas. The present restrictions are necessary for the preservation of this species.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
The following is a summary of conditions which apply to fur-bearing animals
throughout the Province, the information having been secured from reports from
the field officers: —
BEAVER: — Reports indicate that this splendid fur-bearer continues to thrive in
areas which are suitable to its propagation, and to a. large extent this desirable con-
dition is attributable to the rigid control which has been provided in recent years for
its protection and the restrictions which have been made applicable during the
limited periods of open season which have been provided. There are of course cer-
tain sections of the Province in which the necessity for an entire close season
throughout the year still prevails if conditions are to improve and there are sec-
tions in the southern portion of the Province from which it has severed its connec-
tion probably for ever.
Favorable reports regarding the conditions which apply to beaver have been
received from a majority of the northern Ontario districts and from the more
northerly portions of Southern Ontario, and in view of these reports provision was
again made for an open season on Beaver, in accordance with the following parti-
culars:
(a) Throughout Nothern Ontario (except in that part of the District of
Kenora which lies south of the main line of the Canadian National Railway), and
in Parry S'ound, Muskoka, Nipissing (south), Victoria, Haliburton, Peterborough,
Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Renfrew and Lanark, from December
1st to 21st, 1943. It was provided that no trapper could take more than ten (10)
beaver during this open season.
(b) In the county of Grey and in the township of Orillia (Simcoe), from
November 10th to 30th, 1943. Restricted to residents of the respective areas, with
the provision that no trapper should take more than ten (10) Beaver during the
season. It was further provided in this case that pelts so taken were to be forward-
ed to the Department by the respective trappers for disposal on their behalf.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 11
According to records which have been assembled in the Department there
were 32,266 beaver taken during these periods of open season and it has been
estimated that they had a value of $1,222,558.74 to the trappers concerned. As com-
pared with the figures for the preceding year there was an increase of 33% in the
catch and, by reason of an increase in market prices, the valuation increased 57
per cent.
FISHER: — There are only a few sections of the Province in which these animals are
to be found and they are extremely scarce throughout. Very few are taken, and
reports would indicate there was no improvement in conditions or increase in their
numbers during the period reviewed in this report.
FOX: — These animals were reported to be quite plentiful in most areas throughout
the Province, and were quite evidently increasing. There were many complaints
received in the Department to the effect that foxes were responsible for much serious
damage to flocks of domestic poultry. This condition also resulted in considerable
losses among the more desirable game birds. Many township municipal councils
continued to pay a bounty on foxes killed within their respective boundaries, and
conditions were so serious that it was found necessary to provide a regulation to
temporarily rescind the enforcement of legislation which had existed for the protec-
tion of this species, and the taking of foxes at all periods of the year and the use
of dogs for the hunting of foxes was allowed without the usual permit in the Coun-
ties of Brant, Durham, Elgin, Essex, Haldimand, Halton, Huron, Kent, Lambton,
Lincoln, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxford, Peel, Perth, Prince Edward,
Waterloo, Welland, Wellington, Wentworth and York. There were 53,205 red foxes
destroyed during the period covered by this report, respective increases of 22,000
over the previous year and more than 38,000 when compared with the figures for
the fiscal period which ended March 31st, 1941.
LYNX: — These animals are extremely scarce throughout Ontario, and in the south-
ern portion of the Province they are practically extinct. There is no indication from
any section that their numbers are increasing, and but few are taken by trappers.
MARTEN: — As in the case of Fisher and Lynx, this species has become extremely
scarce. There are but few evidences of their existence south of the French and
Mattawa Rivers, and there is no noticeable increase in any part of Northern Ontario
in which they are reported to exist. The number taken in trapping operations is
very limited.
MINK: — This is one of the more pevalent species of desirable fur-bearing animal
from the standpoint of the trapper. Conditions continued to be quite favorable dur-
ing the period under review though there was not much in the way of change re-
ported from any particular section. According to statistics assembled by the Depart-
ment it would appear that payments received by trappers generally from the sale
of Mink pelts are exceeded only by returns from the sale of muskrat and beaver
pelts.
MUSKRAT: — This species is found in varying numbers practically throughout On-
tario, and, while but little improvement has been reported, from the trapping of
these animals during the open seasons was derived a very substantial percentage of
the trappers' revenue. The open season is provided by regulation, and the periods
which prevail in various divisions are established to coincide with the prevalence of
suitable weather conditions in these respective divisions. It has been estimated that
the value of the muskrat pelts which were taken during the open season which
prevailed during the fiscal year 1943-44 was in excess of $2,150,000.00 or more
than 37% of the value of all the furs taken in trapping operations and marketed
during year.
OTTER: — ^Conditions as they apply to this species cannot be described as better
than fair, and there was no improvement reported. They are extremely scarce
throughout the southern portion of the Province, and while they are somewhat
12 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
more plentiful than this in the north they are not sufficiently numerous to justify
any claim that they are an important part of the trapping industry. The numbers
which are taken vaiy but little in any particular open season, though the total catch
in 1943-44 was somewhat in excess of the number taken in 1942-43.
RACCOON: — It is only in that part of the Province south of the French and
Mattawa Rivers that these animals are to be found. Weather conditions in the north
are too severe to encourage the hope that this species could survive to any great
extent north of this area. Favourable reports regarding the prevalence of these
animals were received from many southern Ontario sections. The open season pro-
duced 20,664 pelts, 50% in excess of the previous year's catch.
SKUtNK: — This species continues to be plentiful throughout every section of On-
tario. An average catch was the result of operations during the trapping season.
The trapping of skunk is altogether too obnoxious and pelt values are not suffi-
cient to warrant any intensive effort along these lines by licensed trappers.
WEASEL: — Conditions with respect to weasel are variable, and though they are
plentiful in many sections the pelts are not sufficiently valuable to generally en-
courage any extensive trapping operations for the taking of this species. The catch
in 1943-44 showed an increase over the previous year, and it was a good deal bet-
ter than an average catch.
The following is a comparative table showing the numbers of pelts of the
several varieties of fur-bearing animals taken by licensed trappers, and which were
either exported or dressed, during the 1943-44 fiscal period, as well as similar
figures for the three preceding years: —
Bear
Beaver
P^'isher
Fox (Cross)
Fox (Red)
Fox (Silver or Black)
Fox (White)
Lynx
Marten
Mink «
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk 4
Weasel
Wolverine
1940-41
21
15
1
38
739
3
11
72
53
274
,605
858
722
,059
67
91
383
,439
,976
,224
,931
,973
,005
,719
2
1941-42
384
25,197
884
1,780
32,215
206
114
537
1,652
63,996
722,387
3,880
13,499
94,656
80,776
3
1942-43
288
24,194
691
' 2,649
31,297
265
185
552
1,417
60,331
642,810
3,557
13,420
48,337
62,553
6
1943-44
269
32,266
1,035
4,350
53,205
499
33
646
1,610
52,289
683,450
3,964
20,664
79,298
67,461
5
Trappers experienced a very successful season both from the standpoint of
an increased number of pelts which were taken and regarding the financial returns
which were derived by them from the sale of such pelts. The demand for furs result-
ed in a considerable increase in market values for practically all species and from
information compiled in the Department it has been estimated that trappers who
were responsible for taking these pelts received a total of $5,774,014.16 from the
sale thereof. Due to the very favourable conditions which prevailed and to which
previous reference has just been made this amount is $2,228,076.64 in excess of
the proceeds derived from such sales in the preceding season.
In addition Departmental records show that during this fiscal year licensed
fur farmers marketed the pelts of 22,862 silver or black foxes, 1,243 blue foxes.
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 43-44
13
132 cross foxes and 58,110 Mink, all of which had an estimated value of $1,859,-
917.63, and which was $370,416.18 in excess of such returns in 1942-43.
It will be seen that the fur produced by trappers and by licensed fur farm-
ers during the 1943-44 season was marketed for the total sum of $7,633,931.79.
FUR FARMING
Although market prices for raw furs improved substantially, the high cost
of feed and the scarcity of help caused some further recession in the fur-farming
industry. During the year 1943 there were, 1,222 fur farmer's licenses issued, 1,119
being renewals of previous licenses and 103 for new fur farms. This represents
a decrease of 17 per cent.
As is indicated in the following table mink and foxes are the principal species
propagated on these fur farming premises. Experiments carried out by fur farmers
in the raising of fisher, marten, muskrat and beaver were negligible.
BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS AS AT JANUARY 1st
Beaver
Fisher
Cross Fox
Red Fox
Silver Black Fox ..,
Blue Fox
Platinum Fox
White marked Fox
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
1941
13
26
134
65
16,034
397
X
X
2
16
34,277
179
2
139
7
1942
18
16
112
73
15,630
644
X
X
2
19
38,650
119
0
124
5
1943
21
15
68
96
12,901
595
125
1,379
2
15
29,345
52
0
121
2
1944
23
12
58
123
12,114
838
729
2,030
0
20
33,971
0
0
155
0
X New type foxes previously included with Silver Black Foxes.
The subjoined table shows an analysis of the location of licensed
premises: —
fur farm
County or District. Farms
Algoma 17
Brant 10
Bruce 51
Oarleton 27
Cochrane 5
Dufferin 4
Dundas 5
Durham 5
Elgin 9
Essex 11
Frontenac 25
Glengarry 3
Grenville 9
Grey 78
Haldimand 19
Haliburton 1
Halton 24
Hastings 9
L^^ naiion .
I^B Hastings
H
County or District. Farms
Huron 57
Kenora 18
Kent 20
Lambton 14
Lanark 79
Leeds 17
Lennox & Addington 1
Lincoln 5
Manitoulin 17
Muskoka 7
Middlesex 45
Nipissing 5
Northumberland 3
Ontario 23
Oxford 26
Norfolk 10
Parry Sound 11
Peel 16
County or District. Farms
Perth 44
Peterboro 3
Prescott 4
Prince Edward 5
Rainy River 23
Renfrew 64
Russell 7
Simcoe 78
Stormont 7
Sudbury 6
Temiskaming 8
Thunder Bay 60
Victoria 15
Waterloo 46
Welland 7
Wellington 21
Wentworth 24
York 114
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
The only extension in the policy of creating and maintaining Crown Game
Preserves throughout the Province was the addition of a further Beaver Sanctuary,
in the District of Patricia. The area involved was contained within the following
boundaries, viz: — on the east the west shore of James Bay north from the mouth
of the Kapiskau River to a point in latitude 54 degrees and 30 minutes north, on
the north the parallel of latitude 54 degrees and 30 minutes north west from the
shore of James Bay to longitude 85 degrees, on the west the 85th meridian south
from latitude 54 degrees and 30 minutes north to the south bank of the Kapiskau
River, and on the south the south bank of the Kapiskau River from the 85th Meri-
dian to the west shore of James Bay.
This area was designated as the "Attawapiskat Beaver Sanctuary" and the
regulation which governs was provided at the suggestion of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany. This regulation for the protection of beaver will be effective for a period
of five years, with a provision for extension of such protection provided the terms
can be reasonably observed. Trapping of fur-bearing animals other than beaver is
restricted to Indians resident in Ontario, and the introduction of beaver for purposes
of re-stocking the area is to be undertaken by the Hudson's Bay Company.
This is the fourth such Beaver Sanctuary which has been created in the far
northern portion of the Province.
The only other regulation with reference to Crown Game Preserves which
was adopted during the year provided for a change in the boundaries of the Mark-
ham Crown Game Preserve, located in the Township of Markham (York County),
and which was originally established by Regulation dated April 22nd, 1936.
WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty sta-
tistics for a period of five years ending with the fiscal year 1943-44: —
Period
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Mar. 31, 1940
1,107
614
22
1,743
$25,058.12
For year ending Mar. 31, 1941
738
400
8
1,146
16,477.43
For year ending Mar. 31, 1942
1,199
577
37
1,813
40,593.77
For year ending Mar. 31, 1943
935
497
32
1,464
33,606.62
For year ending Mar. 31, 1944
1,302
731
32
2,065
46,545.75
The rate of bounty which was paid during the 1943-44 period was $25.00,
and on pups, animals under the age of three months, $5.00.
The very noticeable increase in the number of wolves which was killed dur-
ing the year was perhaps largely due to the more favourable weather conditions
which prevailed during the winter.
Claims for the payment of wolf bounty numbering 1,511 and covering a total
of 2.126 wolves were submitted to the Department. Of these claims twenty-nine
(29) affecting forty-nine (49) animals were disallowed for various reasons princi-
pal among which were that the pelts submitted on examination proved not to be
wolves and also that insufficient evidence was produced. At the end of the fiscal
period seven applications in respect to twelve (12) additional wolves were in
abeyance, and as indicated in the preceding statistical table bounty was paid during
the year on a total of 2,065 wolves.
The following is a summary showing in detail the sources of origin and the
varieties of wolves on which applications for bounty were submitted: —
ANNUAL REPORT, 194 3-44
15
SUMMARY OF APPLLJCATIONS FOR PAYMENT OF WOLF BOUNTIES
County
Bruce
Carleton
Durham
Frontenac
Glengarry
Grey
Haldimand
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox & Addington ...
Lincoln
Ontario
Norfolk
Northumberland
Peel
Peterborough
Prince Edward
Renfrew
Simcoe
Victoria
Welland
York
Total Counties
DISTRICTS
Algoma
Cochrane
Haliburton
Kenora
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River
Sudbury
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total Districts
Grand Total
Timber
14
2
0
15
0
0
0
0
26
0
0
0
9
0
12
0
7
0
1
0
18
0
53
14
9
0
0
Brush
180
99
31
18
263
34
42
121
69
81
131
126
17
120
1,152
1,332
13
1
1
19
1
2
1
1
4
1
3
7
0
1
2
1
14
9
0
1
0
5
5
9
26
2
14
143
64
1
112
126
8
27
9
20
92
78
1
67
605
748
Pups
13
33
46
Total
30
18
5
58
29
35
2
14
336
171
32
18
375
169
50
148
78
101
230
213
18
187
1.790
2,126
Following the practice which was instituted on November 1st, 1942, such
wolf pelts as were submitted to the Department in support of applications for the
16 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
payment of bounty were, following approval of the respective applications delivered
to the Seamen's Fur Vest War Project for manufacture into garments for the use
of members of the Naval S'ervice and Merchant Marine, a branch of voluntary war
service which was highly appreciated by those to whom such garments were made
available.
From Departmental records it has been ascertained that farmers were respon-
sible for applications in respect to 704 of these wolves; Indians and trappers in
respect to 916; hunters, guides and rangers in respect to 22 5; and the remainder are
assigned to others in miscellaneous occupations.
Forty-five per cent were taken in snares, twenty-five per cent in traps,
twenty-four per cent were shot, three per cent poisoned. The remainder were killed
as a result of accidents.
BEAR BOUNTY
The regulation which was originally provided in 194 2 and which established
conditions to govern the payment of a bounty on bears killed in certain sections was
re-affirmed.
The conditions provided for the payment of a bounty of $10.00 on any bear
killed between April 15th and November 30th in Townships devoted to agriculture
in certain Counties and Districts.
Some 313 applications for the payment of this bounty, involving 377 bears,
were received for consideration. The bounty was paid on 363 bears, and 11 applica-
tions in respect to 14 bears were not approved.
It has been ascertained from records on file in the Department that 286 of
these bear were shot, 2 8 were trapped and 6 snared.
The following table indicates the total number of bears killed in each of
the Counties and Districts, and in respect of which applications for the payment of
bounty were submitted:
I*
County or District Total
Algoma 18
Cochrane 68
Kenora 5
Manitoulin 5
Muskoka 5
Nipissing 27
Parry Sound 25
Rainy River 33
Sudbury 39
Thunder Bay 27
Temiskaming 50
Haliburton 10
Bruce 7
Frontenac 2
Hastings 20
Lennox & Addington 4
Peterborough 5
Renfrew 27
Total 377
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 17
TOURIST OUTFITTERS
A continuation of war-time problems caused some further recession in the
tourist industry but there was evidence of increased post-war planning. Thirty-
eight (38) applications for permits to establish additional camps were received in
the Department, of which fourteen (14) were granted, thirteen (13) were definitely
refused, five (5) were tentatively refused for reconsideration after the war and six
(6) are still in abeyance pending final decision.
With respect to the 615 licensed camps which were operated in 1942 only
519 licenses were renewed for operations in 1943. However 20 new or re-established
tourist outfitters' camps were licensed to operate during the year which reduced the
consequent decrease. A total of 539 such camps were licensed to operate in 1943,
and these camps are located in Districts set forth in the following schedule: —
Algoma 76
Cochrane 7
Kenora 127
Manitoulin 42
Nipissing 75
Parry Sound 91
Patricia 1
Rainy River 30
Renfrew 12
Sudbury 51
Temiskaming 6
Thunder Bay 21
Total 539
GAME AND FISHERIES ACT
There were no amendments provided with respect to the Game and Fisheries
Act which became effective during the year ending March 31st, 1944.
The only regulations which were provided and which are additional to the
ones to which other references are contained in this report were, —
(a) Providing an open season for the taking of black and grey squirrels,
south of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, November
4th, 5th and 6th, 1943, with a bag limit of five (5) per day; and
(b) Prohibiting the taking of minnows in excess of a total weight of forty
(40) pounds from the waters of Lakes SSmcoe and Couchiching during
the period between October 1st, 1943 and March 31st, 1944.
ENFORCEMENT
Provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act and the Regulations which are
established thereunder, as well as the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the
Special Fishery Regulations for the Province of Ontario are administered within the
jurisdiction of this Department, and for the enforcement of this Legislation and the
various Regulations the Department maintains a regular staff of field service
officers designated as Game and Fisheries Overseers. The services of these regular
overseers are augmented by the appointment of additional seasonal overseers whose
services are retained periodically for short periods, more patricularly during the
spring fish spawning perio-ds and in areas in which these extra men are required.
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force also coperate with our officers to
the end that better observance of these provisions may be secured.
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In this connection it would be difficult to estimate the actual value to the
Province as a whole of the voluntary efforts provided by the many hundreds of
Deputy Game Wardens who are appointed annually, with authority to see that
those with whom they might come in contact observe and obey these various provis-
ions, and the services along educational and conservational lines which are available
through the hundreds of local Game and Fish Protective Associations which have
been organized and flourish throughout the Province. This co-operation in past
years by sportsmen and organizations interested in promulgating in all concerned
the desirability of maintaining undiminished as far as possible our wild life
natural resources is an asset which cannot be computed in terms of monetary
references and one which has been deeply appreciated by those to whom the
administration of the Department of Game and Fisheries has been assigned. This
co-operation in the work of enforcement and conservation has undoubtedly influenc-
ed a spirit of better law observance by those who hunt, fish and trap in this Pro-
vince than could have been secured under conditions where such co-operation had
not been available.
Enforcement officers in the performance of their duties did interrupt offend-
ers on various occasions and in such cases the seizure of equipment being used in
violation of provisions of the Act and regulations subsequently followed. During the
year under review there were 1,201 cases in which such seizures were provided. Such
seizures were the result of action provided by Game and Fisheries Overseers in
1080 cases, by Deputy Game Wardens in 24 cases, by Provincial Police Constables
in 25 cases. In 66 cases the seizures were the result of co-operative action by
Overseers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police, and in 6 cases by mem-
bers of Municipal police forces, and in two of which they were assisted by Game
and Fisheries Overseers.
The following is a summary of the articles which were seized in these
actions: —
Live animals and birds in 10 cases
Birds, game animals and meat in 147 cases
Fire-arms and ammunition in 398 cases
Fish in 173 cases
Nets and fishing equipment in 130 cases
Angling equipment in 109 cases
Pelts and hides in 247 cases
Traps and trapping equipment in 188 cases
Canoes, rowboats and motor-boats in 19 cases
Outboard motors in 3 cases
Motor vehicles in 8 cases
Poison , in 4 cases
Flashlights and Lanterns in 43 cases
Spears in 48 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 51 cases
A combination of articles seized in individual cases, — such as fire-arms and
game, pelts and traps, fishing tackle and fish, etc., is responsible for the difference
in the total of the above summary and the number of the actual cases in which
seizure of articles was reported.
From the records is derived the following information with reference to the
number and types of fire-arms which were seized, viz: — ^Shot-guns, single barrel
and double barrel, 124; repeating shotguns, 24; automatic shotguns, 1; 410 gauge
shotguns, 7; rifles, .22 calibre, 144; high-powered rifles, including .30, .300, .30/06,
.303, .30/. 30, .32, .32/. 20, .32/. 40. .351, .38, .38/. 55, .40, .44, .44/. 40, 6.5MM,
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 19
7MM, and 57 calibres, 82; rifles of .25, .25/. 20, and .25/. 30 calibre, 4; revolvers 5;
and air-guns, 18.
Details of confiscated pelts of fur-bearing animals are as follows: —
Beaver 304
Fisher 7
Fox 61
Marten 12
Mink 49
Muskrat 389
Otter 8
Raccoon 107
Skunk 2
Squirrel 124
Weasel 54
Wolf 5
Deer and moose hides 30
Included among the miscellaneous articles which were seized were 14 axes
and hatchets, 2 hammers, 13 pack sacks and dunnage bags, 4 haversacks, 8 shovels,
8 duck decoys, 5 car batteries (used for the operation of artificial lights), 3 tents,
3 camp stoves, 3 fish containers and 7 ice chisels.
Charges were laid and prosecutions followed in 1012 cases in which viola-
tions of the Game and Fisheries* Act and the various Regulations were involved.
As a result of these charges 963 convictions were registered and varying penalties
imposed. In 43 cases the charges were dismissed and in 6 cases the charges were
withdrawn.
In connection with the convictions the charges were laid by Game and
Fisheries Overseers in 922 cases, by Provincial Police in 32 cases, by joint action on
the part of Overseers and Police in 8 cases, and by Municipal Police Officers in 1
case.
The charges were laid by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 42 cases and by
Provincial Police Constables in 1 case in those instances in which such charges were
dismissed at the hearing by Magistrates.
In the actions in which the charges were withdrawn the informations had
been laid by Overseers in 5 cases and by joint action between Overseers and Pro-
vincial Constables in 1 case.
FISH CULTURE BRANCH
During the year, twenty-seven hatcheries and rearing stations were operated,
successfully. No new plants were established, in keeping with the restrictions
imposed by wartime conditions.
For the culture of game-fish the development of rearing stations or a com-
bination of hatchery and rearing station instead of a hatchery only, is in keeping
with progressive developments in this field. A hatchery may be defined as a build-
ing in which is housed all the necessary equipment for hatching and rearing of
fish to the fry or advanced fingerling stages. A rearing station is an extension of
this arrangement; large tanks, raceways or ponds being provided for accomodating
fish from the underyearling to yearling or older stages.
Of the twenty-seven stations, eleven are provided with hatcheries only, four
with ponds only, one with raceways only, three with a combination of hatchery
and ponds, eight with a combination of hatchery, raceways and ponds.
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Speckled trout are cultured at fourteen stations, rainbow trout at two, brown
trout at six, Kamloops trout at two, lake trout at nine, small-mouthed black bass at
seven, large-mouthed black bass at one, maskinonge at one, perch at one, blue
pickerel at one, yellow pickerel at ten, white-fish at ten, herring at three and min-
nows at four. X
There are facilities at three stations for retaining a selected stock of adult
speckled trout for breeding purposes. A breeding stock of brown, rainbow and
Kamloops trout are provided for at one station.
Practically all the speckled trout, brown trout and Kamloops trout distri-
J)uted to suitable and publicly fished waters are either yearlings or older fish.
Black bass, maskinonge, rainbow trout and lake trout, are, generally speak-
ing, distributed in the fry or fingerling stages. Culture of lake trout to the yearling
stage has been developed, successfuly, at certain stations, and when additional pond
space is available, expansion of the culture of lake trout in this direction may be
undertaken.
White fish, herring, perch, blue pickerel and yellow pickerel are distributed
in the fry stage.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
Speckled Trout:
Approximately 3,084,000 speckled trout yearlings and 10,300 adults were
planted in suitable waters during the year. The distribution of yearlings was ap-
proximately 6 per cent greater than that of the preceding year.
Brown Trout:
The Department has been careful to avoid planting brown trout in streams
which still continue to support native speckled trout satisfactorily. Distribution of
browns is confined to those portions of streams of southern Ontario where there is
little if any likelihood of re-establishing native trout on a practical basis and where
speckled trout fishing is unimportant with the possible exception that in some cases
small feeder creeks may still continue to support a limited number of speckled trout.
Some good results have followed the introduction of browns, but it is neces-
sary to obtain more information on the success of many individual plantings before
definite conclusions may be drawn.
A total of 314,000 browns were planted, of which yearlings numbered ap-
proximately 96 per cent.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead Trout:
The distribution of rainbow trout fingerlings was 34% lower and yearlings
20% greater than that of the preceding year.
(b) Kamloops Trout:
The culture of this variety of rainbow trout was disappointing. The egg
collection from the breeding fish in the Normandale ponds has decreased. Whether
conditions of the environment, or methods of spawning are responsible for evident
sterility is problematical. A small supply of eggs was obtained from Kamloops B.C.,
and the product of these is being cultured at Chatsworth Trout Rearing Station to
determine whether water supply and other conditions are controlling factors in
successful culture.
The Kamloops trout is a magnificent game fish and the habitat conditions
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-4 4 21
required by speckled trout are reported to be somewhat similar for Kamloops trout.
Some good reports of successful planting have been received, and when the necessary-
personnel is available a closer check on the distribution already made will be
advantageous.
Lake Trout:
The collection of lake trout spawn in the fall of 1942 was 50% lower than
that of the preceding year, resulting in a decrease in the distribution of fingerlings
in approximately the same proportion. Prevailing stormy weather prevented our
spawning crews from carrying out effective operations.
When the take of fish is reduced the spawn collection is reduced in about
the same proportion. Thus, the distribution of fry and fingerlings is adversely
affected.
Fair weather, prevailed during the lake trout spawning season of 1943, but
the take of fish with certain exceptions, showed evident signs of decline; the effects
of this reduced take were reflected in the total collection of spawn, and thus in the
total distribution of fry and fingerlings. If the take of lake trout in the Great
Lakes continues to decrease, a protective closed season may be necessary.
The progress made in the culture and distribution of yearling lake trout was
promising:
1942 — 10,700 yearlings
1943 — 60,900 yearlings
Whitefish:
The decrease in the collection of whitefish eggs in 1942 was approximately
28,000,000. This decrease was not serious or confined to one spawning area; some
areas showed slight or substantial increases. The weather during the spawning
period was not good for operations of this nature.
Access to whitefish spawning grounds in the eastern end of lake Erie has
been greatly curtailed for reasons beyond control during wartime.
The total number of whitefish planted in 1943 was 6% less than that of the
preceding year.
Herring :
The collections of herring spawn were carried out on the Bay of Quinte, Lake
Ontario, and the west end of Lake Erie. Only a very limited amount was taken at
the latter point. As a result of these collections the distribution of herring fry
showed a favourable increase of approximately 33 per cent in excess of that of the
preceding year.
Yellow Pickerel:
There was a 12.6 per cent decrease in the distribution of yellow pickerel as
compared with that of 1942.
The chief spawntaking areas where decreases occurred were, Hay Bay,
(Lennox-Addington), Echo Lake (Algoma) and Whitefish Falls, (Bay of Islands,
North Channel). At the other spawntaking areas increases or a very slight change in
yield was evident.
In the Hay Bay area the ice was slow in going out; the fish swam under the
ice into the Bay, and spawned before the nets were set. This happens ■during a
prevailing west wind; with an east wind the condition is reversed, and there is no
difficulty in getting the equipment in place before the spawning run. In Echo Lake
many pickerel moved up under the ice before the nets could be set; this caused a
reduced collection of spawn. In 1941 and 1942 pickerel spawn was collected sue-
22 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
cessfully, in Callander Bay, Lake Nipissing for the Little Current Hatchery, but in
1943, operations were discontinued there, and centred at Whitefish Falls, Bay of
Islands, North Channel, where the take of spawning pickerel was limited. This ac-
counted to some extent at least for the reduced plant of pickerel in 1943.
Small-mouthed Black Bass:
The number of bass fry planted was substantially the same as in the pre-
ceding year, but the number of fingerlings was considerably reduced.
Large-mouthed Black Bass:
The number of large-mouthed black bass propagated and distributed was
greatly in excess of that of the preceding year. The percentage increase in the dis-
tribution of fry was 174 per cent and of fingerings 102 per cent.
Perch:
The take of perch spawn in Lake Erie off Kingsville, is subject to wide
variation. Only 19,000,000 fry were distributed in 1943, whereas in 1939 three to
four times that number were distributed.
Maskinonge:
The distribution of maskinonge fingerlings was 205 per cent higher than that
of the preceding year, whereas the distribution of fry was 26 per cent lower.
CLOSED WATERS
The closure of selected natural water areas to all fishing during alternate
years, for an extended period of time, or permanently, is one of the practical meth-
ods for conserving the breeding stock. The fish thrive in suitable areas under suit-
able conditions without interference and spread to other parts of the same lake.
There is thus set up in each body of water a permanent breeding stock, and there
is being taken from it, only the natural increase each year.
Ten out of fourteen of the following waters were closed on the basis of bio-
logical survey, and the remainder were reported upon favourably by the Depart-
ment's field officers.
When personnel is available, more intensive follow-up studies will be made
concerning the effectiveness of closure in maintaining the fisheries on a proper
basis.
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and pro-
pagation of fish, the following were closed during the year, April 1, 1943 to March
31, 1944:
BLACK DUCK LAKE (Deer Bay)
Township of Harvey, County of Peterborough.
CHBMONG LAKE (Portion located as follows):
Lots 1, 2 and 3, Concession IV, Township of Smith, County of Peterborough.
Lot 23, Concession IV, Township of Emily, County of Victoria.
Lots 22 and 23, Concession V, Township of Emily, County of Victoria.
CLEAR LAKE (Gravel Lake)
Township of O'Brien, District of Cochrane.
DEEP BAY (Sparrow Lake)
Township of Matchedash, County of Simcoe.
DRYDEN CREEK
Townships of Dryden and Cleland, District of Su-dbury.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 23
GEORGIAN BAY (Portion located as follows):
(a) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Electric Island;
(b) An area approximately 1 mile square lying west of Lot 51, Concession
VIII, township of Harrison, District of Parry Sound;
(c) An area lying east of and extending approximately 2 miles along the
shore line opposite concessions XIII and XIV, Township of Harrison,
District of Parry Sound.
GOOSE LAKE
Townships of Fenelon and Somerville, County of Victoria.
GOOSE LAKE (Scugog River)
^ Township of Fenelon, County of Victoria.
LITTLE MUD LAKE (Ohemong Lake)
Township of Smith, County of Peterborough.
MOOS-E LAKE
Unorganized territory west of the Township of Smellie, District of Kenora.
OPINICON LAKE (part)
Lot 16, Concession 6, and lots 15 and 16, Concession 7, Township of Crosby
S, County of Leeds.
SEARIGHT'S BAY (North River)
Township of Belmont, County of Peterborough.
TAYLOR'S BAY and MUNN'S BAY (Belmont Lake)
Township of Belmont, County of Peterborough.
WHITE PINE LAKE
Township of Gamble, District of Timiskaming.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Biological studies during the year were confined almost entirely to fish cul-
ture in the various hatcheries and rearing stations throughout the province.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Biology,
University of Toronto, continued the studies of the fish resources of Algonquin
Park restricting the work of the most essential features in compliance with the
requirements imposed by wartime conditions.
The Laboratory has continued to receive financial assistance from the On-
tario Department of Game and Fisheries, the National Committee on Fish Culture
and the University of Toronto.
The Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries have co-operated in the
stocking programme, by making available whatever stocks of speckled trout and lake
trout were required from time to time.
"In the first years of the study of Park lakes it was learned that some of the
lakes gave much better returns than others to the anglers and a definite programme
for maintaining and improving the fishing was undertaken. These measures of con-
servation consisted in stocking certain lakes and streams with speckled trout fry
and fingerlings, transferring lake trout from in-Park lakes to those more heavily
fished, closing certain lakes in alternate years, and introducing food fish such as
perch and lake herring for bass and trout into those lakes where it was found that
the food supply was sparse.
24 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
CREEL CENSUS
It is necessary to obtain some measure of the fish production from the
various lakes from year to year in order to evaluate the various conservation
measures being applied. The best method of obtaining this measure
of the fishing for a large number of lakes and streams from year to year is through
the creel census carried out by active cooperation of the anglers. The great im-
portance of the Algonquin Park Creel Census lies in its value as being a measure
of both the fish available to the anglers and the improvement or decline of fishing
in the various lakes and rivers from year to year. For this puropse the Park has
been divided into three areas: Algonquin Park South, Algonquin Park North,
Opeongo and adjacent lakes. The creel census of Algonquin Park North was carried
out in 1943 for the first time.
STOCKING
The creel census has already shown us that stockings of some lakes and
rivers with fish has improved the fishing while in other lakes the planting has
given little or no return so it is now possible to emphasize the stocking of those
waters which promise the most satisfactory returns. In 1943, 11,880 speckled trout
were planted in twenty-six lakes in Algonquin Park North and 4 9,000 speckled
trout were planted in thirty-six lakes in Algonquin Park South. The stocking with
fish in 1944 will be carried out with emphasis upon those lakes which give the best
promise of returns and upon some additional lakes which were studied during 1943,
as well as some of the rivers which are being studied for the purpose of carrying out
stream improvements to increase the production of trout.
LAKE CLOSURE
It has also been found that alternate annual closure of lakes is having a good
effect on increasing both the size and numbers of fish available to anglers in many
lakes and this practice is being extended to protect and improve the game fish in
the smaller Park Lakes where the creel census indicated a dangerous decrease in the
game fish available.
LAKE TROUT STUDIES
The work on the food and growth of lake trout has been continued and it
has been found by Dr. Fry that lake trout reach a catchable size at an older age
than speckled trout and as a result of this it takes a longer period for them to
respond to conservation measures. He found also, that the lake trout in different
lakes grow at very different rates but from this information it is possible to pre-
pare a table giving the approximate average relations of age and size of lake trout.
Approximate Age-Length-Weight Relations of
Lake Trout
Age Length Weight
Yrs. Inches Pounds
1 4
2 7
3 9 1.0
4 12 1.2
5 14 1.3
6 16 1.5
7 18 „ 2.4
8 20 3.0
9 22 3:5
10 23 4.2
11 24 5.0
26 ^ 8.0
28 10.0
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44 25
Work was continued on the study of insect population of streams as fish food
and the studies of the temperature and oxygen conditions in lakes as related to the
movements of fish. Experiments were continued on the rate of digestion of food
by fish to determine the amount of food used by fishes during a year as the basis for
measuring the productive capacity of game fish in the various Park lakes."
The work of the laboratory has been reported, annually, in several publi-
cations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In conclusion I desire to express general satisfaction with the services of res-
pective members of the Departmental staff, both at headquarters and in the field.
They were conscientious in the performance of their duties and courteous in their
contacts with the general public.
The co-operation of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, as well
as the local Fish and Game Protective Associations and the Northern Ontario Tour-
ist Trade Association has been provided at all times and has resulted in a better
degree of law observance in the interests of protecting the fish and game resources
of Ontario and has resulted in easing the burdens of administration.
Assistance has been forthcoming from many other organizations and indi-
viduals too numerous to specify in detail, and particularly from Municipal Coun-
cils and Controlling Organizations in the Townships incorporated in the scheme
of Regulated Game Preserve Areas and which in large measure has been respon-
sible for the success which this scheme has presently attained.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. TAYLOR,
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
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APPENDIX No. I
9PEK3IBS AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1943, to March 31, 1944.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce 35,000
Huron 40,000
Muskoka 30,000
Norfolk 2,500
Oxford 20,000
Parry Sound 370,000
Perth 10,000
FINGERLINGS
Lincoln ....
Muskoka .
Simcoe ....
Victoria ...
Welland ...
Wellington
2,000
12,500
9,000
12,000
2,000
1,000
YEARLINGS AN© ADULTS
Brant 195
Norfolk 96
SMALL-MOUTED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce
Elgin
Grey
Hastings
Huron
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Parry Sound .
Peterborough
Prince Edward
Sudbury
Waterloo
Great Lakes ...
FINGERLINGS
Algoma
Brant
Bruce
Oarleton
Cochrane
Dundas
Elgin
Frontenac
Haldimand
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox & Addington
Manitoulin
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Renfrew
45,000
75,000
5,000
6,000
20,000
195,000
145,000
120,000
25,000
510,000
50,000
6,000
165,000
100,000
45,000
62,250
1,000
950
400
1,600
1,000
2,000
28,500
2,000
12,000
1,000
2,100
13,700
15,500
9,000
36,500
2,000
13,000
22,200
11,500
10,000
5,500
Russell
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
Victoria
Welland
Wellington ..
York
400
27.000
74,000
13,400
3,200
14,500
2,000
3,000
1,500
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant
Hastings
Manitoulin
Norfolk
Parry Sound ...
Peterborough .
Prince Edward
162
85
380
130
377
135
100
MASKINONGE
FRY
Hastings
Lennox-Addington
Muskoka
Northumberland
Peterborough
Simcoe
Victoria
FINGERLINGS
Hastings
Nipissing
Peterborough
Prince Edward
Victoria
PERCH
Great Lakes 19,000,000
75,000
15,000
25,000
60,000
645.000
50,000
295,000
800
300
300
450
300
PICKEREL
EYED EGGS
Bruce
Cochrane ....
Grey
Muskoka
Nipissing ....
Parry Sound
Simcoe
Su-dbury
Timiskaming
Victoria
650,000
3,150,000
350,000
1,500,000
8,550,000
4,150,000
2,900,000
1,500,000
3,500,000
700,000
FRY
Algoma 7,850,000
Carleton 2,000,000
Cochrane 1,950,000
Dundas 500,000
Frontenac 7,450,000
Grenville '. 2,000,000
Haliburton 1,600,000
Hastings 4,700,000
Kenora 74,475,000
Kent 1,000,000
Lanark 7,000,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1943-44
27
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1943, to March 31, 1944.
PICKEREL — Continued
Leeds 1,600,000
Lennox-Addington 2,450,000
Manitoulin 3,450,000
Muskoka 3,000,000
Nipissing 1,000,000
Northumberland 2,550,000
Parry Sound 6,900,000
Peterborough .4 13,150,000
Prince Edward 1,000,000
Rainy River 31,500,000
Renfrew 7,200,000
Russell 500,000
S'udbury 5,750,000
Thunder Bay 500,000
Victoria 2,600,000
Great Lakes 43,250,000
BLUE PICKEREL
Lake Erie 150,000
BROWN TROUT
EYED EGGS
Exchange
FINGERLINGS
Sale (Progagation
purposes)
YEARLINGS
Brant
Bruce
Durham
Elgin
Grey
Haldimand
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Lambton
Lennox-Addington
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northumberland
Ontario
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Perth
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe :
Waterloo
Welland
Wellington
Wentworth
York
Miscellaneous, Sale
(Propagation purposes)
Exchange
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGG9
Thunder Bay
Great Lakes .
FRY
10,000
1,000
13,600
12,800
13,450
29,300
35,700
1,000
19,800
7,000
6,600
1,000
1,400
6,600
29,500
8,400
4,200
16,800
1,200
13,200
3,600
12,285
4,200
16,200
10,800
7,400
17,100
5,400
3,300
1,500
200,000
25,000
100,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma
Cochrane
Frontenac
Haliburton
Hastingis
Kenora
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox-Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew
Sudbury
Timiskaming
Thunder Bay
York
Great Lakes
YEARLINGS
Bruce
Grey
Nipissing ....
Timiskaming
York
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
Algoma ....
Manitoulin
Sudbury ..
YEARLINGS
Dufferin
Elgin
Haliburton
Simcoe
Waterloo
Miscellaneous Sale,
(iPropagatioli purposes)
KAMLOOPS TROUT
YEARLINGSr
Grey
Muskoka
Parry Sound
SPECKLED TROUT
FRY
Timiskaming
FINGERLINGS
Muskoka
Thunder Bay
Miscellaneous (Sale, Proaga-
tion urposes
163,000
21,000
95,000
200,000
59,500
93,300
5,000
20,000
30,000
20,000
370,000
88,000
215,000
39,000
87,000
77,000
83,000
61,000
90,000
30,000
,202,000
2,400
2,600
44,000
10,000
1,860
63,242
5,000
5,009
6,000
500
3,600
1,800
1,000
YEARLINGS
Algoma ..
Bruce ....
Cochrane
Dufferin
2.550
500
3,500
1,000
5,000
8,000
400
1,000
449,000
43,800
97,300
33,600
28 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1943, to March 31, 1944.
SPECKLED TROUT — Continued
Durham
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Kenora
Lanark
Lennox-Addington
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland .
Ontario v
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Perth
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
^dbury
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
21,750
8,400
47,200
91,763
31,100
1,200
116,950
11,300
4,000
17,800
36,200
1,800
128,100
600
168,600
239,440
24,800
42,200
2,600
1,500
158,000
14,300
600
56,580
99,300
27,500
458,700
352,700
147,800
Victoria
Waterloo
Wellington
York
Miscellaneous (Sale, Pro-
pagation purposes)
ADULTS
Algoma
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
WHITEPISH
EYED EGGS
Exchange
Kenora ..
3,100
11,200
20,400
2,750
13,650
8,000
1,392
900
400,000
500,000
Thunder Bay 1,000,000
FRY
Kenora 54,545,000
Manitoulin 2,500,000
Rainy River 26,150,000
Thunder Bay 800,000
Great Lakes 285,782,500
HERRING
FRY
Great Lakes
Lake Erie 3,060,000
Lake Ontario 21,500,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 19 43-4 4
29
APPENDIX No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FIS'H ACCORDING TO SPECIES — 1939 TO 19 43, INCLUSIVE
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adxilts
Maskinonge
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch— Fry
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Adults
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry
Brown Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Atlantic Salmon
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Rainbow Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Speckled Trout
Eyed Eggs „
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
Whitefish
Eyed Eggs
• Fry
Herring
Eyed Eggs
Fry
Minnows
Miscellaneous
TOTALS
F— fry
1939
1,890
497
1,386.000
226,325
7,739
120,000
2,675,000
1,300
72,360.000
7,000,000
327,500,000
29,954
375.070
1,845,850
7,236,900
9,964.400
109,635
23,145
1.009
105,000
337,000
2,976,559
6,315
326.657,000
SS.WO^OOO
41
799,496,629
1940
230,000
5,500
152
2,512,500
449,154
1.671
2,345,000
2.333
13.000,000
2,000,000
393.887.000
100
182,725
252,000
575.000
7,564,000
7,312.100
46,385
298.420
19.724
26,500
611,375
3.278,114
7,150
403.339,000
49,050,000
886.995,903
1941
110,000
17,700
109
1,911,500
691,925
2,254
2,100,000
1,494
31,600,000
4,500,000
223,490,000
60.000
346.188
800,000
913,000
18,066,400
164,000
11,750
88,150
25,000
394,000
3,060.174
16.732
375,960.500
8.630.000
672.960,876
1942
185,000
19,100
290
1,535,500
718,259
2,355
1,575,000
705
24,175,000
17,250,000
284,510.000
23.000
359.275
400,000
367.000
15,429.600
10,680
111,000
12.900
24,800
500F
631.775
2,918,513
7.527
250.000
394,802,000
18,430,000
500
763.750,279
1943
507.500
38,500
290
1,512,000
392,700
1,369
1,165.000
2,150
19,000,000
26,950.000
236.925,000
150,000
10,000
1,000
303.335
200,000
125,000
8.048.800
60.860
73.242
15,450
5.000
5,000F
9,400
3.083,983
10.292
1.900.000
369.777.500
24.560.000
694,833,371
30 DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters
EQUIP
District
No.
of
Men
Tugs
Gasoline
Launches
Sail
Row
and
Boats
Gill Nets
No.
Tons
Value
$
No.
Value
$
No.
Value
$
Yards
Value
$
Northern Inland Waters
7221
.„'
35|'
334
41
331
239
■"■75b
'28 ■
15,700!
64.800
20,800
99,4211
87,0001
■292;4bb
i'.9o6
1
1731
1171
39|
1231
911
51|
1791
2101
27
90.195
57,485
20,600
123,580
77,250
15,570
231.7501
121,1801
6,256
300
76
37
109
24
70
1231
145
120
16,476
4,700
1.921
5.772
1.160
4,435
9.060
6.102
5,388
602,8301
908,6801
277,1201
1,385.7301
1,288.5581
1
2,482,151
1,290,350
83,204
Lake Superior
325 11
102 3
406 14
276 11
112
885 46
5731
209 2
120.019
North Channel
31,042
Georgian Bay
170.662
Lake Huron
171.797
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
340,681
Lake Ontario
143,459
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
3610 92
1 1 1
1,7581 $582,0211 1010]
1 1 1
$743,8661
1
10041 $55,0141
1
1
8,235,4191 ]
I
L .060,864
1
1
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
District
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel
(Blue)
Pickerel
(Dore)
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
Northern Inland Waters ....
8,949
1,290,358
45,9291
167.5151
328,5581
1,435,207
336,286
49,087
441,501
113.259
228,470
1,323,022
25,508
1.066,463
1 517,399
888,882
22,402
82,159
33,905
674
13,838
31.8071
1:ril
1
1,533
3.936
1.140
1.332
746
1,503.187
187.709
40.970
68.547
167.134
North Channel
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Lake St Clair
48 348
Lake Erie
55,684
857.240
1
1,481,372
329,319
9,614.034
38,228
453 425
Lake Ontario
76,268
41.435
1.278
Southern Inland Waters
1
Totals
2.754,2331
4,186,031
3,237,1301
1,139,862
9.660.949
2.512,033
Values .. ..
258.673.491
1
1,136.854.021
1
853,091.97
84.548.62
1,256,932.60
423,112.45
ANNUAL REPORT. 1943-44
31
No. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
of Ontario, for the year ending December 31st, 1943
MENT
Seine Nets
Pound Nets
Hoop Nets
Dip and
Roll Nets
Night Lines
Spears
Freezers
and
Ice
Houses
Piers and
Wharves
Total
Value
No.
Yards Value
$
No.
Value
$
No.
Value
$
No.
Value
$
No.
Hooks
Value
$
No.
Value
$
No
lvalue
No.
Value
$
$
4
440
60
48
43
35
60
87
137
509
$19,360
16.700
16.550
65.300
59,600
18.900
273,700
1
73
23
19
585
283
1
1
$2,420
""345
"3,064
17.495
8.665
1
1
1
2.650
276
2"575
600
385
76
15
' U
56
24
61
54
16
112
31
31.760
26,865
6.425
18,260
21.700
5,100
175.750
8.425
3.440
1
108
52
19
57
20
12
92
22
5
13,135
12,832
6,275
31,876
5,885
2,875
40,760
6.400
1.000
272,586
303,401
i
8
9
11
1
2
43
852
41
12.800
3,300
4,200
2.100
450
4.500
103,613
518.183
424.992
50.000
1,375,984
305,283
4
19
38
8
550
3.800
10,350
975
390
2.735
8,700
955
6.557
361 4,965
185
1
,"'
33,432
1
109 21.0801 19.397
9191 470.1101 983131.9891 291 9381
30.000
1
4.1121 1
Ill II 1
14971 297.72513871 121.0381 3.387.074
1
1
1
1
1
1
i
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
No. 4
FISH TAKEN
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tulllbee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed
Coarse
Caviare
Total
Value
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
$ cts.
95.944
^^ 2,415
H| 2.766
^m 487
^K 3,067
^m 12.433
^B 623
^B 7,998
8,912
1.314
22.974
2.631
354.868
35.195
711,276
195.908
13,058
220.643
48.171
24,837
68.8231
246.912
27.035
264
47
3.030
23.891
7.084
76.879
315.654
201.182
128.035
541.096
131,626
273.493
131.937
77,319
225.436
1.743.846
296.354
373.637
880
4,961,002
3,347,286
572,021
2,010.041
1.836.404
486.573
14.483,233
2,281,078
617.699
687.092.04
511.116.89
101
3.009
19.252
77.501
63.225
145,434
89.572
27
59 562 32
485,283.43
132
173
477
49
34
361.575.32
57 081 92
2.131.838.99
358 009.75
34.655
2.275
52'094 16
134.9361
1
36.9301
1,346.1361
609.386
425,129
756.066
1
3.794.7441
1,7721
30,595.337
73,482.221
1.892.001
179.632.681
109.086.921
59,511.99 1
47.532.24
216.424.98
2,878.641
1
4.703.654.82
32 DEPARTMENT OP GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1944)
APPENDIX No. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMEiNT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
Kind
1942
1943
Increase
Decrease
Pounds
Pounds
Pounds
Pounds
2,975,406
2,754,233
221.173
5,434,364
4.186.031
1,248.333
3,845.311
3,237.130
608,181
1.158,771
1,139,862
18.909
4,438,098
9,660,949
5,222,851
2.269,952
2,512.033
242,081
88,483
134.936
46,453
18.578
36.930
18,352
1,565,444
1,346.136
219,308
435.859
609.386
173,527
315.646
425.129
109.483
841,594
756.066
85,528
2.990.624
3.794,744
804.120
2.637
1.772
865
26.380,767
30.595.337
6.616,867
4.214.570
2,402.297
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) .
Pickerel (Dore) .
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Cavaire
Net Increase
I
Thirty-Eighth Annual Report
OF THE
Game and Fisheries
Department
1944 - 1945
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL No. 9, 1946
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and published by T.E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty
1946
TO THE HONOURABLE ALBERT MATTHEWS,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR YOUR HONOUR:
I have the honour to submit herewith for the information of Your Honour
and the Legislative Assembly, the Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Game and
Fisheries Department of this Province, for the year ending March 31st, 1945.
I have the honour to be,
Your Honour's most obedient servant,
G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
TORONTO 2,
March 26th. 1946.
THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Department of Game and Fisheries of Ontario
1
TO: THE HONOURABLE G. H. DUNBAR,
Minister in Charge,
Department of Game and Fisheries.
SIR:
I have the honour to submit to you herewith the Thirty-Eighth Annual
Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries, in which is contained information
with reference to the various Departmental services, as well as condensed statistics
and comparative tables for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1945, and other in-
formation which will probably be of interest.
INTRODUCTORY
For several years, in compiling the Annual Report, it has been found neces-
sary to refer to the fact that war and wartime economy are still the most
important factors in our national life, and the period under review is no exception;
but as the year closes it is quite apparent that the backbone of enemy resistance
has been broken, and hopes are high that the end is not far distant, and perhaps in
sight.
In reviewing the wild-life situation and administrative activities of the De-
partment during the year, it is desirable and necessary to point out that while
there has been but little change in the former, the latter has been carried on under
the handicap of prevailing economic conditions. Despite this fact, however, the con-
servation policies of the Department have been maintained to a very satisfactory
degree, and the general situation has^not been allowed to deteriorate.
The work of conserving the wild-life natural resources of the Province is
complex and perhaps difficult, involving as it does many factors actually not within
the scope of Departmental authority, and which have a direct bearing on conditions
relative to food, habitat and environment, all of which play a very important part
in the continuation and development of the wild-life resources. It is pertinent to add
that these governing factors, such as soil, reforestation, water control, and similar
problems are receiving a great deal of consideration and attention by various
interested public spirited organizations, as well as by the responsible Departments
of Government. Every progressive step which is taken to improve deficiencies with
a view to restoring the previous natural conditions which existed will be reflected
in increased production as well as in the development of wild-life.
The economic and recreational value of wild-life has been emphasized on
more than one occasion and in previous reports, but it may be repeated that these
values have assumed new and increasing importance during the recent years of
conflict. Fishing and hunting have continued to provide clean, wholesome and
healthful recreation for an ever growing number of people, included among whom
are thousands of war-workers, who because of the strenuous nature of their employ-
ment and services require relaxation of the type to be found in the outdoor environ-
ment of field and stream, and while the direct contribution made by wild-life to
the war effort may not be immediately obvious, it is nevertheless of great signiflc-
2 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES Nb. 9 (1946)
ance. It is not to be assumed that food is the primary objective of those who enjoy
fishing and hunting, yet it is a fact that the fish and game taken by the angler and
hunter have made a substantial addition to the food supply of the nation as a
whole. Huge quantities of game fish were taken by resident and non-resident anglers
during the year, while hunters bagged a correspondingly large total of all kinds of
game. Every pound of this personally secured fish and meat served to release an
equal amount of food for shipment overseas where the demand for such was, and
still is, extremely urgent. Commenting on this fact the Director of the U.S. Fish
and Wild-life Service, in his annual report to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior
states: "Game (in the United States) is estimated to replace annually enough meat
to feed an army of 5,000,000 for 77 days." The amount of game and fish taken
annually in Ontario would be proportionately large, therefore it provides a con-
siderable saving in the use of our domestic food supply.
Throughout the year the Department has been conscious of the fact that,
even during the stress of war, recreation in the outdoors such as wild-life provides
is an essential to health and morale, and because of this reason has continued its
vatious activities designed to improve conditions, maintain and develop the re-
sources, and protect them from unnecessary waste or extravagant use. In line with
this work, the value and importance of conservation have been continually
emphasized, and it is pleasing to report that public co-operation has been very
evident. These various activities are set forth in detail herein.
FINANCIAL
The following summary of the revenue collected by the Department of
Game and Fisheries during the fiscal year covered by this report indicates in detail
the various sources from which such revenue was derived, as well as the amounts
collected in each case.
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1945.
GAME-
Licenses —
Trapping $ 53,132.90
Non-resident Hunting 115,590.00
Deer 117,004.70
Moose 4,812.50
Gun 79,389.64
Dog 7,823.65
Fur Dealers 30,652.00
Fur Farmers 6,266.00
Tanners 160.00
Cold Storage 185.00
$415,016.39
Royalty 194,429.40
$609,445.79
FISHERIES—
Licenses —
Fishing (Commercial)
$ 87,253.00
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45
Angling 412,073.30
$499,326.30
Royalty 12,565.61
$511,891.91^
I
GENERAL—
Licenses —
Tourist Camps $ 6,510.00
Guides 7,432.00
$13,942.00
Fines 24,828.82
Costs collected (Enforcement of Act) 786.89
Sales — Confiscated articles, etc 26,372.27
Rent 3,335.00
Commission retained by Prov. on sale of licenses 2,132.72
Miscellaneous 298.32
$71,696.02
Net Ordinary Revenue $1,193,033.72
The total revenue derived from our operations, viz. $1,193,033.72 is the
largest collected in any fiscal year to date, and exceeded by approximately $10,000.00
the largest previous total, i.e. the sum of $1,183,269.29 received three years ago, in
1941-42. It was more by $217,961.12 than the revenue collected in the previous year,
1943-44.
Increased collections were recorded in practically every instance and the
only noticeable decrease was in the revenue received from the sale of commercial
fishing licenses, which was approximately $4,000.00 less than the revenue derived
from the same source in the previous fiscal year. The most important and greatest
increase in revenue, as compared with that of the previous year, was in the fees
from the sale of non-resident angling and hunting licenses. The amount received
in 1943-44 from the sale of these licenses was $378,135.00, while the sum of
$527,663.30 was collected in 1944-45, or an increase of $149,528.30, or approximately
seventy per cent, of the total increase.
The revenue as compared with that of the previous fiscal year also shows
the following collections and increases, viz. —
The total of $262,163.39 received from the sale of trapping licenses and the
various kinds of resident hunting licenses represents an increase of $10,419.09.
Fees from the sale of fur dealers' licenses and from fur royalties amounted
to $225,081.40, or an increase of $49,355.95.
Fines and costs imposed on those convicted of violations of provisions of
the Game and Fisheries Act and the regulations amounting to $25,615.71, represents
an increase of $10,612.61.
The following comparisons in connection with the sale of licenses may prove
to be of interest: —
4 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
NON-RESIDENT ANGLING LICENSES
1943-44 1944-45
Individual (Seasonal) 27,314 36,907
Individual (Three-Day) 27,622 32,242
Family 12,593 18,859
Manitoba Residents 699 817
Boys' Camp 13 18
NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES
1943-44 1944-45
Small Game 1,605 1,949
Deer 1,782 2,385
General 504 653
Bear (Spring Season) 157 181
RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES
1943-44 1944-45
Deer 31,067 31,470
Deer (Camp) 371 398
Deer (Farmers') 6,858 6,786
Moose 854 875
Gun 87,504 92,847
During the year expenditures to a total of $638,765.27 were made by the
Department, and it should be noted that these were all ordinary expenditures. There
was no expenditure on capital account. The following statement is a resume of the
details of this expenditure: —
EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1945
ORDINARY —
Main Office $ 55,819.80
General 45,828.00
Enforcement 238,596.35
Game Animals and Birds 12,095.04
Macdiarmid 3,482.96
Biological and Fish Culture 222,759.54
Grants 5,400.00
Wolf Bounty 45,993.58
Bear Bounty 8,790.00
Total , $638,765.27
As compared with the previous year this total represents an increase in
ordinary expenditure of approximately $68,000.00, the increase being spread over
the various activities indicated in the foregoing table, and $51,000.00 of this increase
was absorbed by the expenditures made in connection with two branches of the
Service, viz: Enforcement and Biological and Fish Culture.
The allocation of grants followed the distribution which has been in effect
for the past few years, details of which are as follows: $2,500.00 to the Ontario
Fur Breeders' Association, Inc., to encourage the efforts of this Association to
improve the practice followed by those engaged in the fur farming industry in the
Province; $500.00 to Professor W. J. K. Harkness in connection with his research
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45
work with a view to providing information which will assist in improving fish
culture practice in the Department and throughout Ontario; $500.00 to the Ontario
Federation of Anglers and Hunters for their efforts to secure the co-operation of
sportsmen interested in hunting and angling in Departmental activities; and
the remaining $1,900.00 in varying amounts, to the late Mr. Jack Miner, Mr. Thomas
N. Jones and Miss Edith L. Marsh in appreciation of their services in providing
sanctuary for migratory and native birds on their properties located respectively in
the counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey.
The favorable balance of revenue over expenditure for the year under
review was $554,268.45. This balance to the credit of consolidated revenue has been
exceeded only once in the history of the Department, viz. in 1941-42, as will be
shown in the following table which depicts annual departmental revenues and
expenditures during the past ten years: —
1 REVENUE
1
1
! EXPENITURE
(Ordinary and
1 Capital)
SURPLUS
1935-36
1 $683,938.72
$451,041.91
1 474,128.95
1 563,938.33
1 575,437.79
568,198.55
1 512,834.70
1 576,762.26
1 574,732.49
1 574,525.05
! 638,765.27
$232,896.81
1936-37
1 782,217.63
318,088.68
1937-38
1 866,558.19
302,619.86
1938-39
j 914,475.24
339,037.45
1939-40
1 1,015,350.82
447,152.27
1940-41
1 984,800.69
471,965.99
1941-42
1 1,183,269.29
606,507.03
1942-43
1 962,350.89
387,618.40
1943-44
1 975,072.60
400,547.55
1944-45
1 1,193,033.72
554,268.45
GAME
Herewith is a summary of conditions as they apply to the various species
of game animals and birds which are to be found in Ontario, compiled principally
from reports which have been supplied to the Department by our field oflScers
throughout the Province: —
DEER: — While it should be stated that this species of excellent game animal is
not too plentiful in many of the southwestern and southeastern counties in which
entire protection throughout the year has been provided over an extended period
of time, it is noted that in most of these counties increasing numbers have been
observed, and in some cases to such an extent has this improvement continued
that a short period of open season was provided in six different townships, details
of which are set forth herewith: —
(a) From November 20th to 23rd, 1944, in the Townships of Aldborough and
Dunwich in the County of Elgin, and in the Township of Wilmot in the County
of Waterloo;
(b) From November 22nd to 25th, 1944, in the Township of East Gwillimbury
in the County of York; and
(c) From November 20th to 25th, 1944 in the Townships of Mountain and
Williamsburg in the County of Dundas.
Special hunting licenses were provided for this open season, and these
licenses were issued to those interested by the respective Township Clerks.
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In connection with this season the following regulations were provided
to govern, —
That the use of dogs for such hunting would not be permitted;
That hunters would be required to use shot-guns with either buck-shot
or S.S.G shells for ammunition;
That the use of rifles would be prohibited; and
That hunters would be permitted to take only one deer, either buck or
doe, over the age of one year.
In addition to this a special open season for deer was provided, on the
recommendation of the County Council, in that portion of the county of Carleton
lying west of the Rideau River, from November 6th to 21st, 1944, and during which
open season the general provisions which apply to the hunting of deer were in effect;
By an amendment to the Game and Fisheries Act provided by the Legis-
lative Assembly during the Session of 1944, and as a means of further protection,
the following additional counties and portions of counties were included in that
part of the Province in which an entire close season for deer prevails, viz: — the
Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward, that portion of the
County of Ontario lying south of the north boundary of Scott and Brock Townships,
the Township of Howe Island in the County of Frontenac and the Township of
Cambridge in the County of Russell.
In those portions of Ontario in which an open season for the taking of
deer is established by the general provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act it
may be stated that favorable conditions prevailed for the successful hunting of
these animals, and as has been indicated by reference made earlier in this report
this is substantiated by the fact that again thousands of resident and non-resident
hunters secured licenses to authorize them to partake of the privileges thus
available and enjoy the recreational pleasures which such hunting provides during
the period of the regular open season in the fall of the year.
MOOSE:— The prevalence of these animals in numbers to warrant successful
hunting of the same is confined to scattered areas principally in the districts situ-
ated in that part of Ontario lying north and west of the French and Mattawa
Rivers and Lake Nipissing, and while such conditions do prevail the reports which
have been submitted do not indicate much improvement with a few local exceptions.
Open seasons were provided for the hunting of moose: —
(a) From November 13th to 21st, 1944, in the Townships of Alice, Buchanan.
Burns, Clara, Eraser, Head, Maria, McKay, Petawawa, Richards, Rolph and
Wylie in the County of Renfrew; and
(b) From October 16th to 31st in the area east of the C.P.R. and C.N.R.,
from Bigwood to Westree and south of the road from Westree to the Ontario-
Quebec interprovincial boundary in the vicinity of New Liskeard.
These special seasons were in addition to the regular periods of open
season provided by the Game and Fisheries Act.
As has been previously stated in this report there was a total of 1,528
licenses, resident and non-resident, issued for the hunting of moose and while
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this represents an increase of twelve per cent, over the figures of the previous
year, the increase is principally made up by the improved sale of such licenses
to non-resident hunters.
CARIBOU: — There are but few parts of Ontario in which this species is reported
to exist, and their numbers apparently are extremely scarce. A survey of the
reports received reveals the fact that they have been observed in scattered and
extremely small herds only in the districts of Sudbury, Algoma, Thunder Bay and
Kenora. It would appear that there is little or no reason to anticipate any noticeable
improvement in a general way even though local increases have occurred, and the
protection afforded by the complete close season which has prevailed in the past
will be necessary to maintain this species even at its present limited level.
ELK: — Such specimens of elk as are found in Ontario at this time are attributable
to the efforts of the Department in the past to re-establish this species in this
Province. As stated in previous annual reports the original stock was secured from
Western Canada with the co-operation of the National Parks Branch of the Federal
Government. Their numbers are still quite few, and they are, of course, to be
found only in the areas in which they have been liberated, that is in certain por-
tions of the Counties of Bruce, Simcoe and Peterborough in the southern portion
of the Province, and in the Districts of Algoma, Nipissing, Sudbury and Thunder
Bay in Northern Ontario. This species is naturally provided the protection of an
entire close season.
BUFFALO: — A small herd of buffalo was received in Ontario from Alberta some
five years ago. These animals were placed on the Burwash Crown Game Preserve
located in the District of Sudbury. Little or no improvement has been reported.
BEAR: — In those parts of Ontario in which suitable habitat prevails these animals
continue to be sufficiently plentiful to be somewhat of a nuisance to those engaged
in agricultural pursuits, and the damage to domestic flocks and herds has been
sufficiently extensive to warrant the provision of a regulation for the payment of
bounty to encourage the destruction of bear under certain circumstances. This
regulation provides for the payment of this bounty on bears which have been
killed in settled agricultural areas in specified portions of the Province and details
of the operations under this regulation are provided elsewhere in this report.
In addition to constituting the nuisance related in the previous paragraph
this species is sufficiently plentiful in many sections to afford a measure of success-
ful hunting for the sportsmen who are interested in such pursuit, and in this con-
nection it is very interesting to note that we have quite a number of United States
residents who visit Ontario to participate in the hunting of bear during the season
which is provided each year between April 1st and June 15th.
RABBITS: — In Ontario three species of rabbits are known to exist, viz: — cotton-
tail, the European Hare (or jack-rabbit), and the snowshoe rabbit (or varying
hare). The cotton-tail rabbit is native to practically all of the southern counties,
the jack-rabbit is restricted pretty well to the southwestern counties, though re-
ports indicate some extension to the eastern counties and some northern districts
in the southern portion of the Province, while the snowshoe rabbit is prevalent in
the various northern Ontario districts as well as in some of the northern districts
and eastern counties in southern Ontario.
These animals were sufficiently plentiful in most sections to warrant the
conclusion that they continue to provide very enjoyable and successful hunting par-
ticularly during the late fall and early winter months. Notwithstanding this favour-
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able conclusion there are naturally some sections in which reports state that there
has been a diminution of the numbers of rabbits, but in no case would this be
applicable to more than one of the species which were prevalent therein.
It is undoubtedly true that the favourable hunting which rabbits provide
is a source of considerable satisfaction to the hunters who are interested, and
their numbers are legion, and provides a condition which is greatly appreciated.
PARTRIDGE: — The general conditions which applied to the various species of
partridge native to this Province, judging from the reports submitted, was none
too favourable in many portions of Ontario, nevertheless there were other sections
in which it was indicated that their numbers were sufficiently plentiful to justify
the provision of a restricted period of open season.
The regulation which established this open season provided that it would
prevail in that portion of Ontario lying south of the French and Mattawa Rivers
and Lake Nipissing, except in those counties lying south and west of, but not includ-
ing the counties of Huron, Bruce, Grey, Dufferin, Simcoe and Ontario, and in the
districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming, Cochrane, Sudbury, Manitoulin, and Algoma.
It will be noted that in addition to the southwestern counties previously referred
to this open season was not in effect in the northern districts of Thunder Bay, Rainy
River and Kenora. Two periods were included in this open season, i.e., from October
7th to 14th, 1944, and from November 6th to 11th, 1944. It was further provided
"that no person shall take or kill such birds in excess of five (5) per day in all, or
twenty-five (25) in all during the aforesaid two periods, or have in possession at
any time such birds in excess of the numbers herein prescribed."
No provision was made to permit the hunting of partridge in the townships
established as Regulated Game Preserve Areas, on the days on which the hunting
of pheasants was permitted, as had been the case in previous years.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— In connection with this species it would be appar-
ent that while there are quite a few of the southern Ontario counties in which
scattered small fiocks are to be found there are very few extensive aibas in which
they have been observed. Perhaps the best areas are located in the extreme south-
western counties of Essex and Kent and adjoining counties and in the eastern
counties of Dundas and Stormont, but their numbers are not too plentiful even in
these counties. These birds are not native to the Province and those which are now
found here are the result of re-stocking undertaken in previous years by the
Department.
During the year 1944 the hunting of these birds was provided by regulation
effective on three days only, October 26th, 27th and 28th, in the counties of Essex
and Kent. The regulation which governed established a bag limit of two (2) birds
per day.
PHEASANTS: — The Department continued its policy of purchasing and liberating
pheasants for the restocking of the various Township Regulated Areas, and in other
areas in which suitable conditions for the development of these birds exist. This
policy was inaugurated some years ago and has been continued with the object of
establishing this species in suitable areas and in which it may be practicable to de-
clare a period of open season. According to statistics which have been compiled in
the Department, a total of 11,896 pheasants were secured from three bird farms
operating in Norfolk, Northumberland and Victoria Counties. Of this number, 9,972
were distributed in varying quantities throughout the Regulated Townships, 1,907
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45
for general re-stocking in other areas, and the remaining 17 were allotted to private
individuals to assist them in their efforts to improve their own private flocks.
Details of this distribution are contained in the following table;
County
Brant
Elgin
Haldimand
Halton
Lambton
Middlesex
Lincoln
\
Norfolk
Ontario
Township
Poults
Adults
Burford
150
South Dumfries
105
Onondaga
75
Aldborough
105
Bayham
90
Dorchester
90
Dunwich
90
Malahide
90
Canboro
90
Cayuga North
90
. •
Cayuga South
75
Dunn
75
Moulton
105
■ . '
Seneca
90
Sherbrooke
60
Walpole
105
Oneida
60
Rainham
45
Esquesing
135
•
Nassagawega
105
Nelson
210
Trafalgar
255
Plympton
120
Metcalfe
90
Westminster (X)
305
10
Caistor
90
Clinton
105
Galnsboro
120
Grimbsy North
60
Grimsby South
75
Grantham (X)
105
10
Louth
105
Niagara (X)
135
20
Middleton
90
Townsend
150
Windham
150
Walsingham
90
Pickering
210
W5
Whitby East
120
Whitby West
120
Total
330
465
795
705
120
405
825
480
555
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County
Oxford
Peel
Prince Edward
Welland
Wellington
Wentworth
York
Township Poults
Dereham 120
Oxford East 180
Albion 105
Caledon 105
Chinguacousy 270
Toronto 240
Toronto Gore 90
Marysburgh South 90
Bertie
120
Crowland
120
Humberstone
120
Pelham
135
Stamford
255
Thorold
120
Wainfleet
120
Willoughby
255
Puslinch
150
Ancaster
135
Barton
105
Beverley
105
Binbrook
75
Flamboro East
90
Flamboro West
90
Glanford
79
Saltfleet
120
Gwillimbury East
165
Gwillimbury North
165
King
240
Markham
274
Scarborough (X)
245
Vaughan
180
Whitchurch
300
Adults
Total
300
923
52
42
19
90
1245
150
795
1,789
105
10
105
(X) — Includes a total in all of 315 birds supplied to the Ontario Bird Dog
Association, and released during dog trials, as follows: Grantham 10, Niagara 155,
Scarborough 45 and Westminster 105.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 11
GENERAL RE-STOCKING
COUNTY or DISTRICT
Bruce
Essex Mainland
Pelee Island
Kent
Manitoulin
Northumberland
Peterborough
Sudbury
POULTS
ADULTS
TOTAL
12
12
610
193
238
1,041
600
155
755
12
12
45
45
30
30
12
12
Totals 1559 348 1,907
Arrangements were made to provide open seasons for pheasants as follows:
(a) In the following townships established as Regulated Game Preserve
Areas, viz: —
South Marysburgh in Prince Edward County;
Pickering, Whitby, and East Whitby in Ontario County;
East Gwillimbury, North Gwillimbury, King, Markham, Scarborough,
Vaughan and Whitchurch in York County;
Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto (part) and
Toronto Gore in Peel County;
Esquesing, Nassagawega, Nelson and Trafalgar in Halton County;
Puslinch in Wellington County;
Ancaster, Barton, Beverly, Binbrook, East Flamboro, West Flamboro
Glanford and Saltfleet in Wentworth County;
Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, Stamford, Thorold,
Wainfleet and Willoughby in Lincoln County;
Canboro, North Cayuga, South Cayuga, Dunn, Moulton, Oneida, Rainham,
Seneca, Sherbrooke, and Walpole in Haldimand County;
Burford, South Dumfries and Onondaga in Brant County;
Middleton, Townsend, North Walsingham and Windhatn in
Norfolk County;
Dereham and East Oxford in Oxford County;
Aldborough, Bayham, South Dorchester, Dunwich and
Malahide in Elgin County;
on October 20th and 21st, 1944.
(b) In the following townships established as Regulated Game Preserve
Areas, viz: —
Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Gratitham, North Grimsby, South Grimsby,
Louth and Niagara in Lincoln County;
on October 20th, 21st and 25th, 1944.
(c) In the following townships established as Regulated Game Preserve
Areas viz: —
Metcalfe and Westminster (part) in Middlesex County; and
Plympton in Lambton County;
on October 26th and 27th, 1944.
In connection with the various seasons in the aforementioned township
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Regulated Game Preserve Areas the regulation which governed stipulated a bag
limit of three cock birds per day. It was further provided that the special township
hunting license was required by hunters in addition to the regular hunting license
demanded by the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act.
(d) On Pelee Island on October 26th and 27th, 1914. The regulation in this
instance provided that "no person shall take, kill or have in possession such birds
(pheasants) in excess of five per day, two of which shall be hen birds"; and, as in
the case of the open seasons in the Regulated Township Areas, a special township
hunting license was required by hunters who participated in this open season on
Pelee Island. All hunting on Pelee Island was prohibited during the period from
October 19th to 25th, 1944, that is, during the week previous to the pheasant shoot.
(e) In the counties of Essex and Kent on October 26th, 27th and 28th, 1944,
with a provision for a bag limit of three cock birds per day.
QUAIL: — Conditions as they apply to this species are not favourable, nor does in-
formation regarding their prevalence indicate much improvement over previous
years. There are but few sections in which there is any evidence of their existence,
and they are generally speaking confined to the most southerly counties. The only
section in which an open season was provided was in the counties of Essex and
Kent, and in which counties the open season coincided with that which prevailed
with respect to pheasants, viz: — October 26th, 27th and 28th. The regulation in
effect provided a bag limit of four birds per day in the case of quail.
DUCKS: — The various species of wild ducks which are available in Ontario during
the open season which occurs during the southerly migration of these birds in the
fall of the year were reported to be quite plentiful in many sections of the Province,
though there are some areas, particularly in Northern Ontario in which such fav-
ourable conditions do not prevail. The Hunting provided by this species of water-
fowl represents a substantial measure of enjoyment to the sportsman who is in-
terested in this division of our wild-life. The regulations which govern are provided
by the Federal Government under the provisions of the Migratory Birds Convention
Act. The complete protection of a close season throughout the year was continued
in the case of wood duck, while the hunting of eider duck was permitted, as in past
years, only north of the Quebec-Cochrane-Winnipeg line of the Canadian National
Railway from September 15th to November 15th. The only change in the regula-
tions which apply was in respect to the period of the open season which was ex-
tended five days throughout the Province, and in the northern division the season
closed on December 5th instead of November 30th as had been previously provided,
while in the southern division the season closed on December 15th instead of
December 10th.
GEESE: — Favourable shooting conditions with respect to this species do not pre-
vail to any great extent in Ontario. Generally speak;ing such conditions exist only
in the extreme northerly portion of the Province, along the western shore of James
Bay, the southerly extension of Hudson's Bay, and in two or three counties in the
southwestern peninsula. They are obsei-ved in scattered areas during the periods
of migration, but in such cases they offer little or no attraction to hunters.
The period of open season which is provided is similar to that which is in
effect in the case of ducks as is related in these comments on the last mentioned
species with the exception that in the counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin the open
season was from November 1st to January 10th, an extension of eight days over
the season which previously existed and which ended on January 2nd.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 13
The species Brant are provided the protection of a complete closed
throughout the year.
season
WOODCOCK:— General conditions as they apply to this species of game bird are
not too satisfactory. They are reported to exist in various portions of Ontario, but
except in some scattered sections they are not sufficiently plentiful to encourage
hunters to participate in such hunting as is provided under the Migratory Bird
Regulations.
In 1944 the open season on woodcock extended from October 1st to 31st,
and the regulations which governed specified a bag limit of eight per day and a
seasonal bag limit of one hundred birds.
SNIPE: — Conditions somewhat similar to those which prevail in connection with
woodcock are evident with respect to snipe. There are some sections in which they
provide desirable sport, but generally speaking they are not too plentiful.
The open season extended from September 15th to November 15th in the
northern division and from October 1st to November 30th in the southern division.
The bag limits were reduced considerably in 1944, the daily limit being decreased
from twenty to eight, and the seasonal limit decreased from two hundred to fifty.
PLOVER: — Reports from field offices indicate that while these birds may be found
in most parts of the Province, they are not at all plentiful except in a few widely
separated counties, and the protection of an entire close season as is provided under
the Migratory Birds Convention Act is justified by these conditions. There are some
areas in which improvement has been observed, though such increase is in no way
general nor too noticeable.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
Following is a summary of the conditions which apply throughout the
Province to the various species of fur-bearing animals which are known to exist
here, and which remarks are based on the reports submitted by members of the
Field Service staff of the Department: —
BEAVER: — These animals continue to provide a good proportion of the financial
returns accruing to trappers from their trapping operations. Conditions as they
apply to this species continue to be quite favourable in many sections and more
particularly in the remoter areas in which circumstances suitable to their propaga-
tion and increase prevail. Such suitable circumstances are undoubtedly augmented
by the intensive efforts put forth by members of the enforcement service commen-
surate with their other duties, to secure as strict observance as they possibly can of
the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act established for the protection and de-
velopment of this very desirable fur-bearer. There are, of course, many portions of
the Province in which such favourable conditions with regard to numbers do not
exist, and in these sections they are rigidly protected and an entire close season
prevails.
The following open seasons were provided during the year 1944:
(a) Throughout Northern Ontario (except the District of Rainy River and
that portion of the District of Kenora lying south of the main transcontinental line
of the Canadian National Railway), and in the districts of Parry Sound, Muskoka,
and Nipissing (South), the counties of Haliburton, Lanark and Renfrew, and those
portions of Hastings, Lennox, and Addington and Frontenac lying north of num-
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ber 7 Highway.
Trappers were allowed to take not more than ten beaver during this open
season, and while the territory in which this open season prevailed was not as ex-
tensive as that in which such open season was provided in the previous year the
catch of beaver in 1944 exceeded by approximately 6,000 the catch of the previous
year.
(b) In the county of Grey and in the townships of Orillia and Matchedash
in the county of Simcoe, under the following conditions, viz: that trapping opera-
tions for beaver would be restricted to licensed trappers and farmers residing in
the respective areas; that each trapper or farmer should take not more than ten
beaver during such open season, and that such pelts as were taken were to be for-
warded to the Department for disposal by us on behalf of the respective trappers
concerned.
The period of open season in each instance extended from December 1st
to 21st.
It has been revealed by Departmental records that there were some 38,070
pelts taken during these periods of open season, an increase of practically fifteen ^
per cent over the catch recorded during the season in the previous year.
It is computed that these pelts had a value to the trappers of some
$1,366,713.00, which is in excess of twenty-five per cent of the total value of the
entire fur catch taken during the fiscal year 1944-45.
FISHER: — Very few of these animals are trapped during the season which extends
from November 1st to February 28th, and while there was an increase in the num-
ber taken during the 1944-45 season as compared with the number taken in the
previous season, reports from officers show that any improvement in the case of
this species is very restricted and confined to scattered localities.
FOX: — This species continues to be quite plentiful in practically every section of
the Province and they are not only causing considerable damage to domestic poul-
try flocks but they are also responsible for some of the decrease reported among
certain species of game birds. Several township councils have provided by-laws
under the authority of which such municipalities pay bounties under certain con-
ditions on foxes killed within the boundaries of the respective townships. This ex-
treme prevalence of foxes resulted in the Department continuing the arrangement
which relaxed the legislation which provided the protection of a close season on
these animals in the counties of Brant, Durham, Elgin, Essex, Haldimand, Halton,
Huron, Kent, Lambton, Lincoln, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxford, Peel,
Perth, Prince Edward, Waterloo, Welland, Wellington, Wentworth and York. In these
counties it was also provided that dogs could be used for the hunting of foxes with-
out permit, as is required by existing provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act.
As is indicated further on in this report there were 43,185 red foxes taken during
1944-45 which was a decrease of more than 10,000 as compared with the number
which was taken in the previous year.
LYNX: — These animals continue to be extremely scarce throughout the Province,
and they are practically non-existent in southern Ontario. There are no reports to
indicate they are increasing any\Vhere in the Province, although there was an in-
crease in the number taken during the year under review.
MARTEN:— The conditions applicable to marten are somewhat similar to those
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 15
reported in connection with fisher and lynx. This species is extremely scarce
throughout the entire area, and they are practically extinct in the southern portion
of the Province. As in the case of fisher, the season in this case extends from No-
vember 1st to February 28th. Trappers take but a limited numxber of marten dur-
ing the season, though there was a slight increase in 1944-45.
MINK: — This species continues to be fairly plentiful and is available in many sec-
tions of Ontario. The open season which prevails extends from November 1st to
February 28th. It is one of the more desirable species of fur-bearing animal avail-
able to trappers. Returns compiled in the Department show that between fifteen
and twenty per cent of the total amount received by trappers from their entire fur
catch of 1944-45 was derived from the sale of mink. The catch of mink for the year
under review decreased seventeen per cent in comparison with that of the previous
year.
MUSKBAT: — General conditions with reference to muskrat continue to be quite
favourable in practically every section of the Province and the revenue earned by
trappers from the sale of these pelts constitutes their principal source of income.
It has been estimated that 38 per cent of the total value of the entire fur catch in
1944-45 was attributable to the sale of muskrats. The 1944-45 catch exceeded by ap-
proximately 100,000 pelts the number which was taken in 1943-44.
The open season which is in effect is provided annually by regulation to
coincide as far as possible with suitable weather conditions in the various sections.
In the past the periods of this open season have been omitted from this report for
the reason that in many instances the season commences in one fiscal period and
terminates in the succeeding fiscal period. However, it may be desirable for pur-
poses of record to incorporate in this report details of such open season, and to
inaugurate this decision this open season which prevailed in 1944 will be recorded.
Period of Open Season
County or District
From
To
Brant
March 10th
April 22nd
Bruce
April 1st
May 1st
Carleton
April 1st
May 5th
Dufferin
March 10th
April 26th
Dundas
March 10th
May 1st
Durham
March 10th
May 1st
Elgin
March 1st
April 5th
Essex
March 1st
April 5th
(X) Frontenac (S)
March 10th
May 1st
(X) Frontenac (N)
April 1st
May 5th
Glengarry
March 10th
May 1st
Grenville
March 10th
May 1st
Grey
April 1st
May 1st
Haldimand
March 1st
April 5th
Haliburton
April 1st
May 10th
Halton
March 10th
April 26th
(X) Hastings (S)
March 10th
May 1st
(X) Hastings (N)
April 1st
May 5th
Huron
March 10th
April 26th
Kent
March 1st
April 5th
Lambton
March 10th
April 22nd
Lanark
April 1st
May 5th
Leeds
March 10th
May 1st
(X) Lennox and Addington March 10th
May 1st
(S)
,
(X) Lennox and Addington April 1st
' May 5th
(N)
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County or District
Period of Open Season
From To
April 22nd
April 22nd
May 10th
May 10th
April 5th
• May 1st
May 1st
May 5th
ADril 22nd
May 10th
April 26th
April 26th
May 1st
May 5th
i May 5th
May 1st
May 10th
May 5th
April 26th
May 1st
May 1st
May 1st
May 1st
April 26th
April 5th
April 26th
April 22nd
April 26th
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
May 21st
(X) — The dividing lines between the northern and southern areas in these counties
and districts are as follows:
Highway No. 7 in the counties of Frontenac, Hastings, Lennox and
Addington, Peterborough and Victoria.
The Mattawa River in the district of Nipissing.
The north boundary of the townships of Brock and Scott in the county of
Ontario.
The north boundary of the townships of Tossorontio, Essa and Innisfil
in the county of Simcoe.
Lincoln
March 10th
Middlesex
March 10th
Muskoka
April 1st
(X)
Nipissing (S)
April 1st
Norfolk
March 1st
Northumberland
March 10th
(X)
Ontario (S)
March 10th
(X)
Ontario (N)
April 1st
Oxford
March 10th
Parry Sound
April 1st
Peel
March 10th
Perth
March 10th
(X)
Peterborough (S)
March 10th
(X)
Peterborough (N)
April 1st
Prescott
April 1st
Prince Edward
March 10th
Renfrew
April 1st
Russell
April 1st
(X)
Simcoe (S)
March 10th
(X)
Simcoe (N)
April 1st
Stormont
March 10th
(X)
Victoria (S)
March 10th
(X)
Victoria (N)
April 1st
Waterloo
March 10th
Welland
March 1st
Wellington
March 10th
Wentworth
March 10th
York
March 10th
Algoma
April 21st
Cochrane
April 21st
Kenora
April 21st
Manitoulin
April 21st
(X)
Nipissing (N)
April 21st
Patricia
April 21st
Rainy River
April 21st
Sudbury
April 21st
Temiskaming
April 21st
Thunder Bay
April 21st
OTTER: — These animals are extinct in many of the southern Ontario counties,
and conditions in the areas in which they do exist are not very favourable. The
number trapped during the year shows an increase, but they do not provide any
important portion of the revenue received by trappers in general. The period of
open season extends from November 1st to February 28th.
RACCOON:— It is only in that part of Ontario south of the French and Mattawa
Rivers that these animals are found. The pelts of this species are not in great
demand. Conditions which apply to the prevalence of raccoon remained about
the same and while the total catch showed a decline during the year it was better
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17
than the average catch over the previous five years. The open season for the taking
of raccoon extends from November 1st to December 31st.
SKUNK: — As in the case of raccoon, these pelts are not in great demand, and the
prices paid for them do not encourage trappers in their attempts to take these
animals. They are quite plentiful in practically every section of the province,
though there was a considerable decline in the catch during 1944-45 in comparison
with that of the previous year.
WEASEL: — Conditions with reference to weasel are variable, and though they are
plentiful in many counties and districts the value of their pelts is not sufficient to
encourage intensive operations for the trapping of this species. The catch during
1944-45 was about normal though somewhat decreased.
The following is a comparative table showing the numbers of pelts of
the several varieties of fur-bearing animals taken in Ontario, and which were
either exported or dressed, during the fiscal year 1944-45, as well as figures for
the three preceding years.
1941—42
1942—43
1943—44
1944—45
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox (Cross)
Fox (Red)
Fox (Silver or Black)
Fox (White)
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
384
25,197
884
1,780
32,215
206
114
537
1,652
63,996
722,387
3,880
13,499
94,656
80.776
288
24,194
691
2,649
31,297
265
185
552
1,417
60,331
642,810
3,557
13,420
48,337
62,553
269
32,266
1,035
4,350
53,205
499
33
646
1,610
52,289
683,450
3,964
20,664
79,298
67,461
306
38,070
1,219
3,691
43,185
449
22
938
1,701
43,098
782,220
4,650
17,381
45,117
62,859
Again trappers experienced a highly successful season, both from the
standpoint of the numbers of pelts which were taken by them and their financial
returns received from the sale of these pelts. The average price of fur declined
somewhat during this period, but notwithstanding this decline it has been estimated
that the value of the fur trapped in Ontario and disposed of in the fiscal year under
review amounted in all to a total of $5,138,126.68. As has been mentioned previously
the principal pelts contributing to this sum were muskrat — $1,955,550.00, beaver —
$1,366,713.00, mink— $933,933.66 and red fox— $302,295.00.
In addition Departmental records show that during this fiscal year licensed
fur farmers as a result of their activities marketed the pelts of 22,085 silver and
black foxes, 1,312 blue foxes and 76 cross foxes, and in addition the pelts of 58,539
mink, all of which had an estimated value of $1,852,084.49, which was aproximately
the same amount as that received during the previous year .
It will therefore be observed that the fur produced and sold by trappers and
licensed fur farmers in the fiscal year under review was marketed for a total sum
of $6,990,211.17
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FUR FARMING
While wartime problems continued to beset the fur breeder, and the future
market for raw furs was somewhat uncertain, there was sufficient demand to
maintain prices at a level commensurate with the rising cost of operation. The
industry continued on practically the same scale as in the previous year. 1220 fur
farmers' licenses were issued during the year 1944 — 1091 renewals and 129 new
licenses.
THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE
BREEDING STOCK ON LICENSED FUR FARMS AS AT JANUARY 1st
1942 1
1943
1944
1945
Beaver
18
16 1
112 1
73 1
15,630 1
644 1
X
X 1
2 1
19 1
38,650
119
124 1
5 1
21
15
68
96
12,901
595
125
1,379
2
15
29,345
52
121
2
23
12
58
123
12,114
838
729
2,030
0
20
33,971
0
155
0
44
Fisher
14
Cross Fox
64
Red Fox
106
Silver Black Fox
11,238
Blue Fox
955
Platinum Fox
1,514
White Marked Fox
2,629
Lynx
2
Marten
17
Mink
36,912
Muskrat
26
Ptaccoon
128
Skunk
1
FUR FARMS IN ONTARIO
For the Year 1944 by County or District
County or District. 1944
Algoma
16
Brant
8
Bruce
48
Carleton
24
Cochrane
7
Dufferin
4
Dundas
4
Durham
5
Elgin
8
Essex
14
Frontenac
21
Glengarry
4
Grenville
8
Grey
78
Haldimand
19
Halton
24
Hastings
8
Huron
56
County or District.
1944
Kenora
Kent
.. 22
20
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
.. 13
.. 81
.. 15
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Middlesex
Nipissing
7
.. 15
.. 8
.. 44
4
Northumberland ...
Ontario
Oxford
Norfolk
Parry Sound
3
.. 28
.. 20
.. 10
.. 14
Peel
.. 16
Perth
41
Peterboro
5
County or District. 1944
Prescott 7
Prince Edward 6
Rainy River 22
Renfrew 55
Russell 6
Simcoe 74
Stormont 5
Sudbury 8
Timiskaming 11
Thunder Bay 73
Victoria 17
Waterloo 43
Welland 6
Wellington 24
Wentworth 29
York 112
' 1.220
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45
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WOLF BOUNTIES
The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty
statistics for a period of five years ending with the fiscal year 1944-1945.
Period
For year ending Mar. 31, 1941 [ 738"
For year ending Mar. 31, 1942 | 1,199
For year ending Mar. 31, 1943 | 935
For year ending Mar. 31, 1944 | 1,302
For year ending Mar. 31, 1945 I 1,321
Timber I Brush
Pups
Total
Bounty &
Expenses
400 I
577 I
497 I
731 I
665 I
8
37
32
32
12
1,146
1,813
1,464
2,065
1.998
$16,477.43
40,593.77
33,606.62
46,545.75
45,993.58
WOLF BOUNTY
Pursuant to the provisions of the Wolf Bounty Act, the continued destruc-
tion of wolves was encouraged at prevailing rates of bounty, $25.00 on ati adult
timber or brush wolf, and $5.00 on a pup under 3 months of age.
It is noted from Department records that more wolves were taken during
each of the last two fiscal years than in any year since 1937. This is indicative of
the increase in the wolf population and that favourable weather conditions during
the winter months are an important factor in the hunting and destruction of
predators.
WOLVES KILLED
WOLF BOUNTY CLAIMS
Fiscal Year Ending March 31st, 1945
The following table indicates the total number of wolves killed in each of
the Counties and District and in respect of which applications for payment of
bounty were submitted.
County
1 Number of | Number of |
Timber | Brush
Number of 1
Pups 1
Total
Wolves
Brant
0
1
21
8
2
1
19
1
2
4
0
1
9
4
0
8
4
1
0.
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Bruce
8
29
Carleton
0
8
Durham
1 fi
2
Essex 1
1
Frontenac
I 11
30
Grenville |
1
Grev -1
2
Hastings
26
30
Huron
4
4
Kent
0
1
Lambton
0
13
Lanark
8
12
Leeds .
2
2
Lennox & Add
10
18
Norfolk
0
4
Northumberland
0
1
Peterborough
6
6
Renfrew
26
38
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Simcoe
Victoria
Wellington
York
TOTAL COUNTIES
15
0
0
0
116
5
22
1
10
136
20
22
1
10
256
DISTRICTS
Algoma
Cochrane
Haliburton
Kenora
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River
Sudbury
Temiskaming
Thunder Bay
TOTAL DISTRICTS
Grand Total
64
28
20
311
33
26
83
55
128
140
108
20
191
1,207
1,323
71
0
1
113
91
2
24
4
17
83
69
0
56
531
667
8
12
141
28
21
424
124
28
107
59
145
225
177
20
247
1,746
2,002
The Department continued the practice instituted on November 1st 1942,
of giving to the Seaman's Fur Vest War Project, the wolf pelts submitted in
support of applications for payment of bounty. These pelts were manufactured
into fur vests by volunteer workers and were made available to personnel of the
Naval Service and Merchant Marine.
BEAR BOUNTY
The payment of bounty to control the population of bears was continued.
The regulations provided for a bounty of $10.00 on bears killed between April 15th
and November 30th by a bona fide resident of a township, located in certain
counties and districts, and of which 25% of the total area was devoted to agriculture.
The Department received 774 applications for bounty on 910 bears killed
during the period covered by this report. Payment of 26 of these claims involving
31 bears, was disallowed however, due principally to the fact that 25% of the total
area of the township in which the bears were killed, was not devoted to agriculture.
The total bounty paid therefore, was $8,790.00 for 879 bears.
County or District
Algoma 37
Cochrane 166
Kenora 27
Manitoulin 7
Muskoka 18
Nipissing 92
Parry Sound 81
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Rainy River 84
Sudbury 66
Thunder Bay 10
Temiskaming 177
Haliburton 15
Bruce 5
Frontenac 7
Hastings 46
Lennox & Addington 10
Peterborough 6
Renfrew 54
Victoria '. 2
Total 910
TOURIST OUTFITTERS
While travel restrictions and similar unfavorable conditions curtailed the
volume of tourist traffic and many camps could not operate at full capacity during
the season, most of the camp operators renewed their licenses in 1944. Five hundred
and sixty Tourist Outfitters' Camp Licenses were issued during the period covered
by this report, an increase of twenty-one, as compared with such licenses issued
during the previous year.
There was considerable interest in post war expansion. Ninety-three
applications for permits to establish camps were considered, of which fifty-five
were granted. Twenty-one were refused and seventeen were in abeyance at March
31st., 1945. Ten new camps were completed and licensed during the year.
Details regarding location of the camps licensed to operate during the
year, are as follows: —
Algoma 77
Cochrane 7
Kenora 137
Manitoulin 48
Nipissing 76
Parry Sound 104
Patricia 1
Rainy River 28
Renfrew 12
Sudbury 48
Timiskaming 5
Thunder Bay 17
Total 560
CROWN GAME PRESERVES
This phase of the Department's conservation work is an imjwrtant factor in
the development and perpetuation of the wild-life of the Province. In the northern
part of Ontario much of the sanctuary reserved for game is contained within
Crown Lands. These are mostly bush lands, — sometimes wild and frequently inac-
cessible,— providing a natural environment and offering food and cover under the
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best possible conditions. While these areas are quite extensive every effort is made
to protect them against poachers, field officers making frequent patrols into and
around the various preserves. Wild-life development within these areas has been
very satisfactory while adjacent territory has benefited from the overflow.
In the southern part of the Province, where the lands are mostly privately
owned and largely of an agricultural nature, there is a considerable number of
small sanctuaries, serving a useful purpose in the protection and development of
upland game birds and animals. These areas have been set aside with the co-
operation of the landowners who are for the most part vigilant in protecting any
game which may be found on their lands.
No additions to these Crown Game Preserves have been made during the
period under review.
LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS
Amendments to the Game and Fisheries Act were provided during 1944 as
follows : —
(a) Provision to establish fur royalties by regulation;
(b) Extending the southerly boundary of division (b) for the purposes
of hunting deer and moose therein. Additional townships formerly located in division
(c) were included in division (b) by this amendment;
(c) Adding the counties of Durham, Northumberland, Prince Edward,
the township of Howe Island, the township of Cambridge, the townships of Scott and
Brock and all townships south thereof in the county of Ontario to the areas in
which the hunting of deer is prohibited at all times;
(d) Establishing portions of the district of Parry Sound and the dis-
trict of Nipissing south of the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers as a separate division
for the hunting of deer, and providing for the open season for such purpose therein;
(e) A later open season for deer in that portion of southern Ontario
defined as division (ddd);
(f) Including farmers' sons in the exemption provided in subsection
4 of Section 10 (gun licenses) when hunting on such farmers' lands;
(g) Clarification of the provisions of subsection 3 of Section 15 relating
to tourist outfitters;
(h) Extending the provision which requires possession of licenses to
sell nets, to include in addition to gill nets, hoop nets, pound nets and seine nets.
(i) Extension of the spring open season for bear, to extend from April
1st to June 15th.
(j) Prohibiting the owners of greyhounds to pursue game or run at
large on Sundays; and prohibiting the owners of dogs from permitting such dogs to
molest game birds or disturb their nests during the months of April, May, June or
July, except during approved field trials;
(k) Prohibiting the possession of artificial lights at night by persons
in possession of fire-arms capable of killing deer or moose;
(1) Adding the counties of Halton, Northumberland and Ontario to
those counties in which the use of snares is prohibited at all times;
(m) Adding the counties of Lincoln, Wentworth and York to those
counties in which there is a bag limit of six cotton-tail rabbits per day; and pro-
hibiting the sale of such rabbits in these counties;
(n) Prohibiting the discharge of any fire-arm from or across the
King's Highway; and
(o) Authorizing the export by non-resident hunters of "additional
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small game animals and birds not in excess of the numbers authorized to be killed
or taken by this Act (Game and Fisheries Act) or the regulations in respect of
which special open seasons may be provided."
Amendments to the Special Fishery Regulations for the Province of
Ontario in 1944 were as follows:
(a) The open season for black bass and maskinonge in all the waters
of Lake Erie was changed to extend from June 25th to December 15th; and
(b) The open season for black bass and maskinonge in the waters of
the River St. Lawrence was changed to extend from June 16th to October 15th.
Amendments to the Migratory Bird Regulations were in accordance with
the details as outlined in the reference to ducks, geese and snipe previously record-
ed in this report.
ENFORCEMENT
This Department is responsible for the administration throughout Ontario
of The Game and Fisheries Act and the regulations which may be provided there-
under, as well as The Special Fishery Regulations for the Province of Ontario pro-
vided by the Federal Government under The Fisheries Act (Canada), The Migra-
tory Birds Convention Act, insofar as the regulations apply in Ontario, and The
Wolf Bounty Act.
For the enforcement of this legislation the Department maintains a staff
of Game and Fisheries Overseers whose services are augmented at different periods
of the year, but principally during the period of the Spring Fish spawning season,
by additional seasonal overseers. In addition members of the Ontario Provincial
Police force co-operate with our regular officers to secure better observance of the
various provisions of these legislative enactments and regulations.
The work of enforcement is also assisted by the efforts and co-operation of
the hundreds of Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens who annually apply for such
appointments. This co-operation with the regular Overseers by these Deputy Game
Wardens is provided without expense to the public and serves a very useful purpose.
It is more than probable that the services rendered by these honorary officers are
generally speaking not to the extent of making seizures and prosecuting those who
have been apprehended violating the provisions of the legislation with the enforce-
ment of which we are charged, but rather for the purpose of advising and drawing
to the attention of those who might be contemplating such violations the impor-
tunities which might result, and thus they act principally in a preventive rather
than an enforcement capacity. They undoubtedly render good service on behalf of
the general public, and it would be difficult to estimate the value of the assistance
which is thus voluntarily provided.
In the performance of their duties enforcement officers did apprehend
offenders on many occasions, and in such cases this action was followed by the
seizure of equipment which was being employed in connection with the violations
so witnessed. During the period of the fiscal year under review there were 1,247
cases in which seizures were made from such offenders. These seizures were
the result of action provided by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 1146 cases, by
Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens in 9 cases, by members of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Police Force in 25 cases, and by members of municipal police forces in 3
cases. In the remaining 64 cases the seizures resulted from action in which Over-
seers, Deputy Game Wardens and Provincial Police constables co-operated with
each other.
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The following is a summary of the articles which were placed under
seizure in these actions, —
Live Animals and Birds in 2 cases.
Birds, game animals and meat in 142 cases.
Fire-atms and Ammunition in 389 cases.
Fish in 209 cases.
Nets and Fishing Equipment in 140 cases.
Angling Equipment in 152 cases.
Pelts and Hides in 256 cases.
Traps and Trapping Equipment in 154 cases.
Canoes, row-boats and motor-boats in 14 cases.
Outboard Motors in 9 cases.
Motor Vehicles in 4 cases.
Flashlights and lanterns in 25 cases.
Spears in 49 cases.
Miscellaneous Articles in 46 cases.
While the combined total of these various articles exceeds 1,247, the actual
number of seizures made during the year, the discrepancy is accounted for by the
fact that there are many seizures made in which articles in more than one of these
classifications are included, such as fire-arms and game, traps and pelts, fishing
tackle and fish, and in all the cases in which water-craft, outboard motors and
motor vehicles are involved articles in other classifications would be included.
Departmental records disclose the fact that the fire-arms which were
seized in these cases consisted of 177 small calibre fire-arms such as .22's and .25's,
95 larger calibre rifles, 1 revolver, 7 air guns, 58 single-barrel shot-guns, 69 double-
barrel shot-guns, 18 repeater shot guns, and 1 automatic shot gun.
Details of confiscated pelts of fur-bearing animals are as follows:
Beaver 468
Fox 94
Lynx 1
Marten 2
Mink 71
Muskrat 382
Otter 56
Raccoon 64
Skunk 34
Squirrel 46
Weasel 31
Deer and Moose Hides , 64
Charges were laid and subsequent prosecutions were undertaken in 1,085
cases in which violations of the Game and Fisheries Act and the various Regula-
tions were involved. Following these charges and prosecutions convictions were
registered and penalties imposed by the presiding magistrates in 1,034 of these
cases. The charges were dismissed, principally for lack of supporting evidence, in
44 cases. In 6 cases the charges were withdrawn previous to the trial and in one
case the defendant received a warning.
In connection with the 1,034 convictions which were registered, the charges
were laid by Game and Fisheries Overseers in 1,005 cases, by Provincial Constables
in 21 cases, and in the remaining 8 cases the charges followed information laid
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 25
jointly by Overseers and Provincial Constables.
In connection with the 44 cases in which the charges were dismissed the
information was laid in 42 of these cases by Game and Fisheries Overseers, in one
case by Provincial Constable and in the one remaining case jointly by Game and
Fisheries Overseers and Provincial Constables.
Game and Fisheries Overseers were responsible for the 6 actions in which
the charges were withdrawn, and were also responsible for the one action in which
the defendant was warned.
REPORT OF THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
Fish culture may be defined as any procedure for increasing the stock
of fish. One of the procedures used extensively in Ontario, is the planting of hatch-
ery raised fish. In the majority of cases this procedure is a supplement and not a
substitute for nature's means of replenishment.
A study of the complex series of events which occur from the time the
fish egg is fertilized until the end product, the fish, reaches sexual maturity dis-
closes useful facts for developing advantageous procedures in fish culture. For
example, fundamental fish culture research may result in the establishment of im-
portant principles governing successful planting.
During the year twenty-seven hatcheries and rearing stations were oper-
ated. In keeping with prevailing wartime restrictions, no new plants were estab-
lished. The introduction to the report of the Fish Culture Branch for the year
1943-1944, contains information on the classification of the hatcheries and rearing
stations, and the kinds and sizes of the fish cultured. Since this classification is
substantially the same for this year it is unnecessary to report the details of it
here.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
Speckled Trout:
The distribution of speckled trout during the year was approximately
as follows:
2,877,000 yearlings
493,840 fingerlings
4,360 adults
It is not the policy of the Department to plant fingerlings (under-yearlings)
unless the accommodation at our rearing stations is taxed beyond their proper
capacities. On account of crowded conditions at Chatsworth, Sault Ste. Marie, Dorion
and Hill Lake, distribution was required until crowded conditions were alleviated.
Brown Trout:
The department is careful to avoid planting brown trout in streams that
continue to support native speckled trout satisfactorily, or in streams that may be
susceptible to improvement for the latter. The distribution of brown trout is con-
fined to streams where there'is scant possibility of their rehabilitation for speckled
trout on a practical basis ; the lower reaches of a number of streams cut off by dams
from the upper reaches, where speckled trout still thrive, have been stocked with
browns advantageously.
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Planting of browns in suitable streams continues to yield fruitful results.
During the year, the Department received many reports of excellent catches from
waters which were previously barren of speckled trout, due largely to temperatures
unsuitable for them.
Approximately 331,000 yearlings were planted this year, an increase of 90
per cent over the previous year's distribution.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead:
It has long been recognized that steelhead rainbow have a tendency to
migrate from streams in which they have been planted to larger waters such as the
Great Lakes during their second year or when they are about a foot in length. On
reaching sexual maturity, they ascend streams in spring and leave again after the
completion of spawning. Hence they are available to anglers for only a short time,
and consequently comparatively few are found in the fisherman's creel.
It is only in the larger rivers and lakes that rainbow trout are normally
found, except during their immature stages. The St. Mary's, the Pine and certain
of the larger parts of the Nottawasaga are examples of rivers in which rainbows
remain throughout the year. They have survived chiefly in larger lakes, Superior,
Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, which they inhabit for the most part, as adults.
Distribution was confined with few exceptions to the larger tumultuous
rivers flowing into Georgian Bay and Lake Superior, and larger rivers and lakes
of Southern Ontario where successful planting has been indicated.
Approximately 32,200 flngerlings , and 4,000 yearlings were planted during
the year.
(b) Kamloops Trout:
The monthly bulletin of the Department, February, 1946, vol. 1, No. 4, con-
tains a detailed account of the life history, culture, and planting of Kamloops trout
in provincial waters. As mentioned in the Annual Report 1943-44, many of our
domesticated adult stock of Kamloops trout have not spawned satisfactorily with-
in recent years. Consequently, until eggs can be secured from the stock that is being
reared at Chatsworth Trout Rearing Station, the distribution of this species will be
limited. Notwithstanding this difficulty, a distribution of 7,200 yearlings was car-
ried out this year; this is a 44 per cent increase over plantings of the preceding year.
Lake Trout:
The collection of lake trout eggs in the fall of 1943 was 20 per cent lower
than that of the fall of 1942. This was reflected in the distribution in 1944 which
was 21 per cent lower than that of 1943. In addition to this distribution, 44,000 year-
ling lake trout were planted.
Steps are being taken by the Department to ascertain the factors respon-
sible for the decline, with a view to providing a remedy.
Atlantic Salmon:
"Nearly 30,000 salmon of Miramichi stock obtained from the Dominion De-
partment of Fisheries, hatched at Glenora, and fed at the Waring Creek Rearing
Station for about 34 days, were planted on June 20, 21 and 22, 1944, in Duffin Creek
above Pickering by the Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries with the co-
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 27
operation of members of the staff of the Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory.
The plan followed was based upon the experience of the Fisheries Research Board
on the Petitcodiac River, N B., and involved distributing the fish along the streams
of the system in numbers related to estimated holding capacity for yearlings. A
total of 54,890 yards were planted. Neither the large, lowest waters nor for the most
part the small uppermost waters were included, but the distribution covered a large
part of the two main branches of the system and their tributary streams.
Hand-seinings (one man) made by myself in July, August and September,
and by Dr. Huntsman in October, by which time the fish were from 5.7 cm. (2.2 in.)
long in the coldest water to 11 cm. (4.3 in.) in the better waters, showed that some
salmon survived in all the tributaries and in the upper parts of the two main
streams, but in only two places were they found elsewhere. Most were in cool clear
waters with constant, moderate flow, which were apt to be noted for trout. Some
correlation is seen between disappearance of salmon (from the main stream) and
heavy floods with very much sediment, which alter the stream bed, forcing the
fish to shift their locations, and reducing the available food supply. Also salmon
survival seems correlated with few minnows and rainbow darters. The salmon were
found as a rule in from 6 to 12 inches of water, at somewhat intermediate temper-
atures, over clean, coarse gravel, or in relation to such cover as stones, boulders,
etc. and in partial shade rather than dense woods or open to full sky. By mid-Oc-
tober, from none to nearly a third of the number planted were found in various
parts of the streams examined, but the proportion of those present that would be
caught in the seining was unknown." (D. M. Britton).
Whitefish:
The distribution of whitefish was 30 per cent less than that of the preceding
year.
The collection of whitefish eggs in the fall of 1943 was 23 per cent less than
the collection in 1942. This decrease was noticeable on all the spawning areas where
collections were made. Likewise the distribution of whitefish in 1944 was 30 per
cent less than that of 1943.
Herring:
The total collection of herring spawn and the percentage fertility of the
eggs taken varies considerably from year to year. It is probable, although there is
no documented evidence that can be cited as proof, that in both cases weather con-
ditions may be largely responsible.
The collection made in the fall of 1943 was somewhat smaller than that
of 1942, and the loss due to infertility was very much higher. Consequently, the
distribution in 1944 was considerably less than that of 1943.
Yellow Pickerel:
The number of yellow pickerel eyed eggs and fry planted this year was
substantially the same as last year, namely, a 2.8 per cent increase in 1944 over that
of 1943.
Small-mouth Black Bass:
The number of small-mouth black bass fry planted was greatly in excess
of that of the preceding year, namely a 300 per cent increase. The production of
28 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
fingerlings was increased by 69 per cent. There was also a substantial increase in the
number of yearling and adult bass planted.
Largre-mouth Black Bass:
As formerly, one pond was operated for the propagation of large-mouth
black bass; the production being 130,000 fry and 14,600 fingerlings.
perch:
The production of perch fry was approximately the same as that of the
preceding year.
Maskinonge:
The distribution of maskinonge fry and fingerlings was 130 per cent and 37
per cent higher, respectively, than in 1943.
CLOSED WATERS
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and pro-
pagation of fish the following were closed during the period April 1, 1944 and
March 31, 1945.
ADAM LAKE
Located in unorganized territory north of Clay Lake, and between
Fluke Lake and Segise Lake, District of Kenora.
BENORIS LAKE
Located on Lot 25, Concessions 8, 9 and 10, Township of Harcourt,
District of Haliburton.
FISHTAIL LAKE
Located on Lots 10 and 15, Concessions 8 and 9,
Township of Harcourt, District of Haliburton.
HARVEY or NOGIES CREEK (Part)
Located on Lot 10, Concession 2, Township of Galway and Lot 28,
Concession 17, Township of Harvey, County of Peterborough.
KINGSCOTE LAKE
Located in the Township of Harcourt, District of Haliburton.
MASKINONGE CREEK flowing from Maskinonge Lake; Little Vermillion Lake,
(Part) and Maskinonge Lake (Part)
Located on Lot 12, Concession 5, and Lot 8, Concession 6, respectively.
Township of Pickerel, District of Kenora.
MCMILLAN CREEK
Located on Lot 33, Concession 6; Lot 34, Concession 6; Lot 25, Concession 6,
Township of McKillop, Lot 1, Concession 6; Lot 2, Concession 6; Lots
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Concession 5, and Lot 7, Concession 4,
Township of Hullett, County of Huron.
NASH'S CREEK or HOASIE'S CREEK
Located on Lots 26 and 27, Concession 1, Township of Williamsburg,
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 29
County of Dundas.
SILVER CREEK
Located on Lot 22, Concession 2; Lot 21, Concession 2; W.H. Lot 21,
Concession 1, Lot 22, Concession 1, Lot 23, Concession 1, Township of
McKillop, and Lot 9, Concession 1, Township of Tuckersmith,
County of Huron.
Part of Little Thessalon or Bridgland River located between what is known as
RESERVE DAM and McCREIGHT'S DAM, both in Township of Kirkwood,
Algoma District.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Biological surveys were conducted on —
Twelve Mile Creek, Lincoln County;
Welland River and Canal, Welland County;
Walker's Pond, Middlesex County, and
Belwood Lake, Wellington County.
The Grand River was examined near Dunnville regarding the need for fish-
ways in order that pickerel might have access to the reaches of the river above
the dams at Dunnville.
Streams in the vicinity of Caledon were studied as to their possibilities
as hatchery sites.
The following waters were examined for evidence of pollution and for
other causes of fish mortality.
1. River between Sturgeon Lake and Pigeon Lake at Bobcaygeon.
Pollution by domestic sewage evident, but it had no noticeable effect
on fish life.
2. Beardmore Creek at Acton — Tannery wastes.
3. Duffin's Creek near Pickering — Treated domestic sewage.
4. Sandy Lake, Peterborough County — Some fish mortality but the cause
was not determined.
5. Grand River near Kitchener — Domestic and trade wastes.
6. Nith River near New Hamburg — Domestic Sewage.
7. Lake Ontario off Peel and Halton Counties — Persistent oil slick on the
water in this area.
The Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory of the Department of Zoology,
University of Toronto continued the studies of fisheries in the Provincial parks and
other waters of the Province. Financial assistance and cooperation making this
work possible was received from the Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries, the
National Committee on Fish Culture, the University of Toronto, and for work with-
in the parks, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests.
30 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
STOCKING, LAKE CLOSURE and CREEL CENSUS
The experimental stocking of selected lakes in Algonquin Park and the
practice of alternate annual closure of Lakes were continued as in previous years
as experiments in fish culture directed toward building up a good stock of both
lake trout and speckled trout. The creel census was carried out in order to deter-
mine the efficacy of these two procedures.
Bioligical studies have been initiated in Lake Superior Provincial Park,
Sibley Provincial Park and Quetico Provincial Park, in all of which the creel census
has been used as a means of determining the present availability of stock of game
fishes. More intensive biological studies have been carried out on the lakes and
streams of both Quetico and Sibley Parks as a basis for a management policy to
improve the game fishery.
Meetings of the Ontario and New York State fisheries biologists were held
on two occasions during the year at Kingston, Ontario, for the purpose of planning
studies on lake Ontario. Arising out of these conferences investigations of the
plankton production, small-mouth black bass and whitefish were undertaken. The
bass of the upper St. Lawrence river and adjacent Ontario waters were tagged in
order to determine their movements throughout the year.
A special study of the whitefish was carried out to compare the effec-
tiveness of natural reproduction with that of hatchery produced fry. In order to
accomplish this, the hatchery raised fry are to be planted in alternate years and
an analysis of the year class composition of fish in the commercial catch is to be
carried out continuously so that the year class of whitefish arising from natural
spawning only, and natural spawning supplemented by hatcheries may be measured.
In conjunction with this investigation the Ontario Department of Game
and Fisheries have greatly improved the method of collecting statistics of catch
from the commercial fishermen which constitutes an essential adjunct to the
successful implementation of this research.
In view of the fact that the Atlantic salmon were formerly abundant in
Lake Ontario and tributary streams where they are now completely lacking, an
investigation has been undertaken in cooperation with the Ontario and Federal De-
partments of Fisheries to determine whether or not it may be possible to introduce
this valuable species. This investigation includes, also, an analysis of the distri-
bution of planted salmon fry and fingerlings along the course of Duffin Creek where
the experiment is being carried out to determine conditions within the stream fav-
ourable or unfavourable for the planted fry.
The techniques and results of this study may be of the greatest importance
as having a direct bearing upon the general practice of planting fry and finger-
lings of any species in the waters of the Province.
Closely integrated with this investigation, studies a;re being made on the
effect which sedimentation in the stream has upon invertebrate life constituting
the food of the fishes living there.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45 31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In conclusion I desire to express general satisfaction with the services
rendered by the various members of the Departmental staff, both in the Main
Office and in the Field. They performed their duties in a conscientious manner,
and were generally courteous in their contacts with the public with whom they
had any dealing.
Local Fish and Game Protective Associations and the Northern Ontario
Tourist Trade Association, as well as their various officers, have cooperated with the
Department in our efforts to secure strict observance of the legislation provided
for the protection of fish and game in the Province and in our work to further ex-
tend and develop conditions favourable to the possible improvement of the wild-
life division of our natural resources, and it would be extremely difficult to es-
timate the value of the results of this co-operation. It is superfluous to add that
this assistance has somewhat relieved the burdens of administration and it is very
deeply appreciated.
Many other organizations and individuals have assisted with desirable
advice and suggestions, and the efforts put forth by Municipal Councils and Con-
trolling Organizations in the Townships included in the scheme of Regulated Game
Preserve Areas have been of considerable advantage and benefit in bringing to
this scheme the success it at present enjoys.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient servant,
D. J. Taylor
Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries
32
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
APPENDIX NO. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1944, to March 31, 1945.
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Bruce 20/)00
Muskoka 10,000
Nipissing 20,000
Parry Sound 15,000
Victoria 50,000
Waterloo 10,000
Wellington 5,000
FINGERLINGS
Brant 1,500
Lincoln 5,000
Middlesex 1.00D
Oxford 500
Perth 1,600
Welland 5,00fi
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Oxford 51
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
FRY
Algoma 35,00b
Bruce 110,000
Elgin 30,000
Frontenac 6,000
Grey 10,000
Halton 40,000
Hastings 15,000
Huron 10,000
Lanark 14,000
Manitoulin 185,000
Muskoka 175,000
Nipissing 180,000
Ontario 10,000
Parry Sound 450,000
Peterborough 65,000
Simcoe 10,000
Sudbury 505,000
Victoria 90,000
Waterloo 60,000
Wellington 30,000
FINGERLINGS
Algoma 59,500
Brant 5,400
Carleton 2,500
Cochrane 1,200
Dundas 10,000
Frontenac 41,000
Grenville 7,000
Grey 16,000
Haliburton 15,000
Hastings 65,000
Huron . 2,000
Kent 10,000
Lambton 10,000
Lanark 10,000
Leeds 63y00O
Lennox 19,000
Lincoln 5,000
Manitoulin 85,300
Muskoka 3,800
Nipissing 10,100
Northumberland 11,500
Oxford 5JD00
Parry Sound 17,100
Peel 2,000
Peterborough 13,600
Prince Edward 15,000
Renfrew 7,000
Russell 1,000
Simcoe 13,000
Stormont 10,000
Sudbury 32,400
Temiskaming 3,000
Thunder Bay 52,000
Victoria 8,500
Welland 5,000
Wellington 8,000
York 20,000
YEARLINGS AND ADULTS
Brant 172
Haliburton 2.50
Hastings 460
Manitoulin 476
Norfolk 100
Northumberland 20
Parry Sound 384
Perth 100
Peterborough 872
MASKINONGE
FRY
Dundas 15,000
GrenviUe 20^000
ANNUAL REPORT. 1944-45
33
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1944, to March 31, 1945
FRY (Continued)
Hastings
Leeds
liennox-Addington
Nipissing
Muskoka
Northumberland
Ontario
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Prince Edward
Renfrew
Simcoe
Stormont
Sudbury
Victoria
FINGERLINGS
Hastings
Nipissing
Peterborough
Victoria
MINNOWS
Muskoka
PERCH
Lake Erie
Lake St. Clair
(Mitchell's Bay)
PICKEREL
EGGS
Algoma
Bruce
Dundas
Frontenac
Grenville
Hastings
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox- Addington
Lincoln
Middlesex
Muskoka
320,0(X)
10,000
20,000
45,000
20,000
160,000
10,000
20,000
1,260,000
80,000
10,000
25,000
20,000
40,000
630,000
400
300
1,640
612
25,000
17,980,000
500,000
16,275,000
1,400,000
450,000
2,650,000
500,000
1,350,000
500,000
1,050,000
1,850,000
1,850,000
850,000
150,000
250,000
6,575,000
Nipissing 6,400,000
Northumberland 3,800,000
Ontario 200,000
Parry Sound 17,750,000
Peterborough 9,400,000
Prince Edward 800,000
Simcoe 2,000,000
Stormont 700,000
Sudbury 5,200,000
Temiskaming 3,150,000
Thunder Bay 1,000,000
Victoria' 3,800,000
Welland 300,000
York 750,000
Great Lakes 23,000,000
FRY
Algoma 1,950,000
Bruce 350,000
Cochrane 3,075,000
Kenora 70,350,000
Lanark 300,000
Lennox & Addington 7,000,000
Manitoulin 4,250,000
Muskoka 1,275,000
Nipissing 1,050,000
Parry Sound 4,250,000
Prince Edward 5,140,000
Rainy River 21,500,000
Renfrew 9,150,000
Simcoe 200,000
Sudbury 8,650,000
Temiskaming 2,175,000
Thunder Bay 4,750,000
Great Lakes 11.900.000
Ontario
ATLANTIC SALMON
FRY
BROWN TROUT
YEARLINGS
Brant
Bruce
Cochrane .
Durham ...
Elgin
Grey
Haldimand
Halton
30,000
18,200
25,800
700
11,000
9,600
70,400
2,000
19,700
34 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1944, to March 31, 1945
YEARLINGS (Continued)
Hastings
Huron
Middlesex
Muskoka
Norfolk
Northumberland
Oxliord
Parry Sound
Peel
Perth
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
Waterloo
Wellington
Welland
Wentworth
York
Miscellaneous, Sale
(propagation purposes)
9,800
13,400
3,000
1,200
29,200
6,050
11,400
4,000
18,600
4,800
11,100
4,200
16,300
10!,800
12,50D
5,400
5,400
3,700
2.500
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Temiskaming
York
Great Lakes
YEARLINGS
Algoma
Bruce
Nipissing
Simcoe
Temiskaming
71,400
50.000
49,500
77,800
34,000
84,500
105,000
20,500
5,000
2,225,000
22,478
6,000
11,540
3,000
1,000
RAINBOW TROUT
FINGERLINGS
LAKE TROUT
EYED EGGS
Exchange 200,000
FRY
Haliburton ...
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
30,000
123,000
23,500
240,000
Algoma
Manitoulin ...
Sudbury
Dufferin
Elgin
Parry Sound
KAMLOOPS TROUT
YEARLINGS
Great Lakes 2,560,000
Muskoka
Parry Sound
18,186
4,000
10,000
2,400
500
1,000
4,800
2,400
FINGERLINGS
SPECKLED TROUT
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Frontenac
Haliburton
Hastings
Kenora
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox - Addington
Manitoulin
Muskoka
180,895
5,000
17,000 Algoma
66,000 Bruce
127,500 Cochrane
33,000 Dufferin
122,900 Grey
5,000 Huron
17,000 Nipissing
13,000 Thunder Bay
30,000 Temiskaming
136,000 Wellington ....
FINGERLINGS
1,500
6,000
31,000
6,000
27,500
8,000
30,000
130,840
249,000
4,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1944-45
35
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1, 1944, to March 31, 1945
YEARLINGS
Algoma
Bruce
Cochrane
Dufferin
Durham
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Kenora
Lanark
Lennox - Addington
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Middlesex
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Perth
Peterborough
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Temiskaming
Victoria
Waterloo
Wellington
434,700
28,300
122,700
27,300
24,900
7,500
37,700
107,400
30,150
3,600
121,350
13,950
13,600
14,400
46,500
1,800
119,200
1,835
148,600
211,200
24,800
47,850
2,600
135,500
13,713
600
47,340
137,600
10,300
439,550
257,860
195,265
2,100
13,500
21,700
York
Miscellaneous (Sale,
Progation Purposes)
ADULTS
Algoma
Grey
Thunder Bay
Temiskaming
WHITEFISH
EYED EGGS
Exchange
Kenora
Thunder Bay
€00
9,400
3,100
160
600
500
400,000
1,000,000
2,000,000
WHITEFISH
FRY
Kenora 19,385,000
Manitoulin 500,000
Rainy River 13,600,000
Simcoe 1,000,000
Sudbury ;.... 500,000
Great Lakes 221,050,000
HERRING
FRY
Great Lakes
Lake Ontario
Lake Erie ....
Lake Huron .
5,000,000
202,000
460,000
36
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
APPENDIX NO. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES - 1940 to 1944, INCLUSIVE
1940
1941
1942
1943 I 1944
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Small-Mouth Black Bass
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings & Adults
Maskinong^e
Fry
Fingerlings
Perch - Fry ..
230,000
5,500
152
2,512,500
449,154
1,671
110,000
17,700
1091
1,911,500!
691,9251
2,254 i
185,000
19,100
290
1,535,500
718,259
2,355
2,345,0001 2,100,000
2 333 1 1 494
13,000,'OCOI 31,600,000
507,5001
38,5001
2901
I
1
1,512,0001
392,7001
1,3691
I
130,000
14,600
51
2,030,000
664,400
2,834
Pickerel (Yellow)
Eyed Eggs I 2,000,000| 4,500,000
1,575,000 1,165,0001 2,705,000
705 2,1501 2,952
24,175,000! 19,000,000! 18,480,000
I
17,250,000
26,950,0001113,950,000
Fry
Adults
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry
Brown Trout
Eyed Eggs
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs
393,887,000 1 223,490,000 1 284,510,000 ! 236,925,000 1 157,315,000
1001,
182,7251
252,0001
I
60,000
346.188
150.0001
23,000 i
359,275
575,0001 800.0001 400,000
Fry I 7,564,0001 913,OC0| 367,000-
Fingerlings I 7,312,1001 18,066,400! 15,429,600
i
10,0001
1,0001
303.335! 330,750
200,0001
125,0001
Yearlings
Atlantic Salmon
Fry
Fingerlings
Rainbow Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Speckled Trout
Fry
Fingerlings
Yearlings
Adults
10,680!
200,000
2,976,500
8,048,800! 3,475,995
60,860! 44,018
30,000
46,3851
298,420
19,7241
26,5001
164,000!
11,7501
88,150
25,000
111,0001
12,900!
73,2421
15,450!
32,186
3.900
24.8001
5,0001
I
7,200
Whitefish
Eyed Eggs
Fry
611,3751 394,0001
3,278.1141 3,060.1741
7.1501 16,7321
I I
5001 5,0001
631,7751 9,400! 493,840
2,918,513! 3,083,9&3| 2.876,963
7,5271 10,2921 4,360
Herring:
Fry
Minnows
Totals
.1 1 ! 250.0001 1.900.0001 3.400,000
1 403,339,000 1 375,960,500 ! 394,802,000 ! 369,777,500 1 256,035,000
I I I I I
.1 49,050,0001 8,630,0001 18,430,000! 24,560,0001 5,662,000
I I
5001 1 25,000
886,995,903 1 672,960,876 1 763,750,279 1 694,833,371 1 570,892,549
38
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters
EQUIP
DISTRICT
No.
Of
Mem
Northern. Inlaiid Waters
Laike Quperior
North Channel
Greopglam Bay
Lake Huinon
La;ke St. Oltaiir
iLake Erie
LaJkie OnjtarlD
Southjetrn Inltand Waters
To&ais
TUGS
No,
872
3i50
80
426
255
79
925
622
191
3909
Tons
32
346
20
279
253
725
88| 1655
Value
_$_
19.SO0
91,500
5,500
92.950
67,000
343,700
GASOUINE
LAUNCHES
[ I
SAIL AND I
I ROW BO ATS j
GILL NETS
No. I Viaiuie (
245 [
122 1
35 1
139 [
89[
351
171 1
219 1
16|
No.
Vaa-ue I
I $
Yaoxis I Valoie
102,2401
79.7'30|
19 5150|
135,610 1
83,525|
16,0501
261,5501
130,790 1
3 6501
300
95|
34|
124' I
23|
52- [
12f7|
169 1
110|
19,158 1
5.750|1
1.865|
6707 1 1
1,360|1
3,645 1
1023512
8,171 1 1
5,0851
,115.305|
182,2881
,322.586 1
,031 ,924 1
I
,605 012
220.600
3,600
89,294
146.915
15,465
162,600
135 805
397,470
137.630
1.250
620.150, 1071| 852.695| 1057| 61.97'6|8.169.637| 1086,419
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
1 HERRING 1
WHTTE-
PISH
TROUT
PIKE
PIOKiSREL 1
CBILUE) 1
PICKEREIfl
(DORE) 1
DISTRICT
Vbs. 1
1
lbs.
1
1
libs. 1
1
libs.
lbs. 1
1 1
Hbs. 1
Ntortihem Pnilaaiid Waters
Laltoe SmpeailOT
14,6(»|
1,480,6051
12,418 1
56.0861
129, 462 1
335,5061
1,016,107 1
1 1
1.543,977
402,701
30,788
364,368
142.455
80
1.256.912
460,862
183.104
1.552 693
9,177J
815.1531
315,828
llOj
74.3651
1
830.fQO
6,503
78,007
29,579
800
11,679
42,734
73 226
278|
1
1
475|
80
9 369.806!
22,626 j
1
1.654.779
95.973
North Channel
61.999
Georg'lan Bay
55.946
Lake Huron
154,480
LaJce St Olalr
52.533
Laike Erie
775.589
Lake Ontario
46.147
Southern Inland WateirB
TOTAflLiS
3.045.8831
4.204,163
2,950.430 1
1.073.3881
9.413.2691
2.899.446
VALUES 1
$308,824,461
1.202,152.67
745.294.571
87,97a4d|
846.151.261
49L571.29
ANNUAL REPORT. 1944-45
39
NO. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
of Ontario, for the year ending December 31st, 1944
MENT
1
DIP AND
Freezers & | Piers and TOTAL
tSOaXNE NETS SPound NetsJHOOP NETS
Roll Nets
NIGiHT (LINES 1 0lPBARiS|rce Houses | Wbarves
No. |Yairdis| Value
1 NIO
1 Value
1 No.
1 Value
|No.
•Value
No.
IVatt'e No [Value iNo.l Value iNo.
Value 1 VALUE
1 1 $
1 $
$
$
Hodks
i $ 1 $ 1 1 $ 1
$
$
1 1 34
14,900
72
2,580
2
4
4,800
390
141 1 35,720
121
15,595
290,441
1 4fi
19,570
67
33.2951
60
15,525
392,285
1 t 30
12,500
20
7,350
18
7,100
69,320
3
500
500 96
66,800
48
850
1
1
14,400
2385
63
19.550
53
34 286
522,239
1
100
76
89
61.200
3,000
7001
55'
29,050
17
5,795
384,510
11
3,500
2675
9a
13.080
1
2
3,900 1 345
15
5,175.
10
1,875
42,847
41
9.690
7.360
541
283,200
22
460
6
30
1,650 105
108
194.150
90
38,810
1,557,070
10
95'5| 1.225
1
710
23,407
12
2,8S2
3,550 143
40
11,395
39
9^270
324,383
40
3,705 1 6,825 1
285
9,715
19
100
L500| 55
14.
1,980
1
50
28,710
lOel 1«.450| 18.6a>| 904
471310
1137
37,012
41
2,489
38 ,400 1 4,123 1 |
521| 307,6651 409
128,30613.620.805
NO. 4
FISH TAKEN
1
TDtL-
1
MIXED
STUIBGEON
WHIJS
PEIRCH 1
1
IBEE
dATPESp
OAlRlP
COARSE
'CAVIARE
TOTAL
VALUE
\ ..
lbs.
I'bs.
libs.
113S.
lbs.
•I'bs.
libs'
lb®.'
$ C
118,982
10,398
109.834
52,551
383,709 1
1,070
4,964.121
744,286.12
913
1,501
53.296
166.864
3.761.049
530,165.43
6.066
23,136
7.314
326
2,378
255,236
31
486.906
50,063.68
988
2,793 1
110.347
3,420
19.226
87.552
9
1,544,942| 380.384.29
4.512
316, 099 1
257.803
13,494
18.168
106,367
72
1,4)60,2101 272,371.39
4,177
39.008
63.511
93,153
184.791
179
449,1111 48,262.19
14.895
1,372,905
82.577
191.223
1,791,081 1
231 15.255661 1 1.891.240.02
10,584
39,762
167,257
179.231
215.786
326,474
68 2,686 5171 425,206.02
1
2.033
8.5111
111,667
134.074
225 ,757 1
1 482.042 1 41,291.20
161,1 17 1
41,795
1,942,2081
598.594
506777
674,008 1
3,527.821 1
1660| 31.040,5591
87.272.04|
3,70056 1
197.362.821
95.189.16!
74,900.04
45.790.85
198,287.23
2.80&.8e| 1 4,389.273.34
40
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1946)
APPENDIX NO. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES
OF ONTARIO
KIND
Herring
Whitefish
Trout
Pike
Pickerel (Blue) ....
Pickerel (Dore) .,
Sturgeon
Eels
Perch
Tullibee
Catfish
Carp
Mixed and Coarse
Cavaire
Net Increase
1943
1944 1
Increase
Decrease
POUNDS
POUNDS 1
POUNDS
POUNDS
2,754,233
3,045,883
291,650
4,186,031
4,204,163
18,132
3,237,130
2,950,430
286,700
1,139,862
1,073,388
66,474
9,660,949
9.413,269
247,680
2,512,033
2,899,446
387,413
134,936
161,117
26,181
36,930
41,795
4,865
1,346,136
1,942,208
596,072
609,386
598,594
10,792
425,129
506,777
81,648
756,066
674,008
82,058
3,794,744
3,527,821
266,923
1,772
1,660
112
30,595,337
31,040,559
1,405,961
445.222
960,739
Thirty -Ninth Annual Report
OF THE
Department
of
Game and Fisheries
1945 - 1946
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
SESSIONAL NO. 41, 1948
ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and published by Baptist Johnston, Printer to the King's Most
Excellent Majesty
1948
TO HIS HONOUR,
The Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:
The undersigned begs respectfully to present to Your Honour, the Thirty-Ninth
Annual Report of the Department of Game and Fisheries for the year ending
March 31, 1946.
H. R. SCOTT,
Minister.
THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Department of Game and Fisheries
Following is the Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Department of Game and
Fisheries, in which is included data and information concerning administration of the
sei-vices assigned to this Department, together with various statistics for the fiscal year
ended March 31st, 1946, comparative tables and other information relative to our
operations which may prove interesting and of value to those concerned.
PREAMBLE
During the twelve months under review, we witnessed the cessation of those hos-
tilities the prosecution of which to a successful termination had been the first and fore-
most consideration of all of us over a period of practically six years. The resources of
the nation were fully utilized and proved their effectiveness in war. They have a peace-
time value which, if properly appraised and used efficiently, will secure for the nation
an economic future rich in material values, and worthy of the sacrifices which have been
made.
In this scheme of reconstruction and re-appraisal, the Fish and Wildlife component
of our natural resources will assume a new value, as they constitute an important item
in our total economy. As a recreational medium they have a value which in a great
measure surpasses their material worth. Fishing and hunting are sports of the masses
as well as the classes, and as an asset to national health they occupy a ranking position.
Characteristic of our way of life is our love of the out-of-doors. The recreational
possibilities of forest and field and lake and stream are an inspiration and invitation
I to a freer and fuller life, while the character building influence of the outdoor environ-
ment is an important factor in the development of good citizenship.
The men who fought to protect this heritage and make it secure for posterity have,
by their courage and valour, firmly established the great outdoors as a memorial to
themselves. It is symbolic of peace and the finer things of life. Let us resolve to main-
tain it as such, remembering always that our freedom to enjoy it has been re-established
at a heavy cost.
FINANCIAL
The financial operations of the Department during the fiscal year under review are
detailed in the presentation which follows.
The various sources of revenue and the receipts derived therefrom, as well as the
expenditures involved in the provision of sei-vices, are outlined in the following
statement.
Careful scrutiny of these tables and the subsequent reference thereto will indicate
a very noticeable expansion of the interest which is now being displayed by sportsmen
in the beneficial recreation which emanates from participation in the twin sports of
angling and hunting which are available in the Province of Ontario.
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1946
GAME—
Licences —
Trapping $ 54,584.15
Non-resident Hunting 218,855.00
Deer 1 66 ,635 .20
Moose 7,051.00
Gun 110,252.51
Dog 9,512.70
Fur Dealers 36,91 4.00
Fur Farmers 7,189.00
Tanners 160.00
Cold Storage 246.00
$611,399.56
Royalty on Furs 223,183 95
FISHERIES—
Licences —
Fishing (Commercial) $ 90,541.00
Angling 605,320.60
$695,861.60
Royalty on Commercial Fish 12,563.97
GENERAL—
Licences —
Tourist Camps $ 8,435.00
Guides 9,062.00
Fines (Enforcement of Act) 34,398.54
Costs Collected (Enforcement of Act) 810.12
Sales, Confiscated Articles 49,186.62
Rent 3,103.50
Commission retained by Province on sale of licences 2,773.76
Miscellaneous 387.04
$834,583.51
$708,425.57
$108,156.58
$1,651,165.66
The amount of total revenue derived during the year, viz: — $1,651,165.66, was far
in excess of the total receipts collected in any previous year. This total represents an
increase of $458,131.94 over the amount accruing from our operation during the previous
fiscal year, ending March 31st, 1945, or an increase of practically forty per cent. The
largest contribution to this important increase is attributable to the greater revenue
derived from the sale of non-resident licences, both hunting and angling, which in the
year under review amounted to $824,175.60 or practically fifty per cent of our total
revenue for this fiscal year, and which exceeded, by the sum of $296,512.30 the revenue
which was secured from the sale of these non-resident licences in the preceding year.
ANNUAL REPORT. 1945-46
The following are additional comments and comparisons with reference to other
sources of revenue to which important portions of this increase can be assigned, viz : —
From the sale of various types of resident hunting licences we received during
1945-46 a total of $293,451.41, an increase of $84,420.92 as compared with the revenue
derived from this source in 1944-45.
In 1945-46 we collected a total of $314,682.10 from the sale of trappers' licences and
fur dealers' licences and including royalties payable on the pelts of fur-bearing animals
taken in the Province, an increase over the revenue collected from similar sources in
1944-45 of $36,467.80.
The operations of the Enforcement Service were responsible for the collection in
1945-46 of the sum of $84,395.28 from penalties imposed and the sale of confiscated
articles which resulted from the apprehension, prosecution and conviction of offenders,
which amount was $32,407.30 in excess of the revenue derived from these sources in the
preceding year.
The following comparative table which outlines details of the various types of hunt-
ing and angling licences which were sold in the two years 1944-45 and 1945-46 may be of
interest:
NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENCES
Small Game
Deer
General
Bear (Spring Season)
RESIDENT HUNTING LICENCES
Deer „
Deer (Camp)
Deer (Farmers')
Moose
Resident Hunting (Gun)
944-45
1945-46
1,949
3,281
2,385
4,430
653
1,426
181
314
CS
31,470
45,259
398
481
6,786
8,190
875
1,282
92,847
131,468
fCES
36,907
57,877
32,242
33,261
18,859
33,415
817
1,031
18
33
NON-RESIDENT ANGLING LICENCES
Individual ( Seasonal )
Individual ( Three-Day)
Family
Manitoba Resident
Boys' Camp ,
The total number of these licences issued in 1945-46 was 321,748 of which number
135,068 were secured by non-resident hunters and anglers who visited Ontario to par-
ticipate in the pastime and recreation thus available.
Expenditures during the year, including both ordinary and capital, amounted to a
grand total of $748,661.36, which exceeded by $109,896.09 the amount expended in the
previous year. The major proportion of this additional expenditure, $83,736.45, was
accounted for by increased appropriations provided for the Biological and Fish Culture
Service and for the Enforcement Service.
Details of the various services on which these expenditures were made are specified
in the following table:
4 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
EXPENDITURE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1946
ORDINARY—
Main Office $ 59,908.70
General 49,429.94
Enforcement 298,895.84
Game Animals and Birds 21,002.27
Macdiarmid 3,245.94
Biological and Fish Culture » 246,196.50
Grants :....„ 5,400.00
Wolf Bounty „ 44,999.87
Bear Bounty 1 1 ,348.00
Total Ordinary $740,427.06
CAPITAL 8,234.30
Grand Total $748,661.36
The amount provided for grants, $5,400.00, was distributed as follows:
(a) $2,500.00 to the Ontario Fur Breeders' Association, Inc., to assist their efforts
towards the improvement of Fur Farming practice throughout the Province;
(b) $500.00 for expenditure in connection with the work of Fisheries Research under
the supervision of Professor W. J. K. Harkness;
(c) $500.00 to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters for expenditure in con-
nection with the educational programme of the Federation regarding the importance
of compliance by sportsmen with the provisions of the legislative enactments or
Regulations which are administered by the Department; and,
(d) $1,500.00 to the estate of the late Jack Miner; $300.00 to Mr. Thomas N. Jones;
and $100.00 to Miss Edith L. Marsh, in appreciation of their services in providing
sanctuary for migratory and native birds on their properties located respectively in
the Counties of Essex, Elgin and Grey.
The table next following shows revenue, expenditures and the surplus accruing
from our operations annually over a period of the past ten years:
REVENUE EXPENDITURE SURPLUS
(Ordinary
and Capital)
1936-37 $ 782,217.63 $474,128.95 $318,088.68
1937-38 866,558.19 563,938.33 302,619.86
1938-39 914,475.24 575,437.79 339,037.45
1939-40 1,015,350.82 568,198.55 447,152.27
1940-41 984,800.69 512,834.70 471,965.99
1941-42 1,183,269.29 576,762.26 606,507.03
1942-43 962,350.89 574,732.49 387,618.40
1943-44 „ 975,072.60 574,525.05 400,547.55
1944-45 1,193,033.72 638,765.27 554,268.45
1945-46 1,651,165.66 748,661.36 902,504.30
It will be observed that the surplus of revenue over expenditures in 1945-46, viz: —
$902,504.30, was far greater than that in any year during this particular period, and it
was never exceeded in any year previous thereto.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46
GAME
The comments included in the following summary of conditions applicable to game
birds and animals insofar as they relate to white-tailed deer, moose, caribou, black bear
and partridge are generalizations on the status of these respective species based on the
results of a questionnaire distributed by the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology:
WHITE-TAILED DEER: — There are now no areas in Ontario south of Patricia district
where deer are not found. Our principal deer country is still a broad belt from Sault
Ste. Marie to Arnprior with an important extension west of Lake Superior. Northward
deer are scarce. The hunting pressure on deer is constantly increasing.
MOOSE: — Moose are scarce or decreasing in several important iwrtions of their Ontario
range, but there still remain areas of abundance. The trend, downward, especially west
of Lake Superior, is causing some concern. Algonquin Park remains the centre of moose
abundance south of the French and Mattawa Rivers. Northward, moose are scattered
throughout the country. The Lake Superior, Lake Nipigon and Albany River regions
are centres of abundance.
CARIBOU: — The caribou is scarce in those parts of the Province w^here it still remains,
but has not lost ground recently.
ELK: — Animals of this species which exist in Ontario at this time are the results of
experiments to re-establish elk in Ontario undertaken by the Department in the years
immediately preceding the period covered by this report. They are to be found only in
the areas which have been re-stocked and there only in limited numbers. These re-
stocked areas include portions of the Counties of Bruce, Simcoe and Peterborough, as
well as the districts of Algoma, Nipissing, Sudbury and Thunder Bay. Improvement in
conditions applicable thereto is not very noticeable. The hunting of elk is prohibited
under the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act throughout the entire year.
BLACK BEAR: — Black bear have increased to a remarkable extent and are usually
abundant throughout the Province except in the densely settled portion.
RABBITS: — The prevalence of rabbits provides sportsmen throughout Ontario with a
large percentage of the recreation they secure from hunting during the latter part of
the fall season, and with practically all of the hunting which is available throughout the
winter season. Three species of rabbits are to be found in this Province, viz: —
(a) The cotton-tail rabbit, which is the source of enjoyable hunting throughout the
southern counties;
(b) European hare (or jack-rabbit). This species has a general distribution
throughout the southwestern part of the Province and in some of the eastern
counties.
(c) Snow-shoe rabbit. Reports received in the Department would warrant the
assumption that this species is fairly plentiful in the northern portion of the
Province and in addition in some of the northern and eastern sections of
southern Ontario.
While there are some areas from which decreased numbers are reported, generally
speaking, conditions with reference to the species throughout continued to be quite
favourable.
PARTRIDGE: — Three species of native partridge are well distributed in settled portions
of Ontario, viz: — spruce grouse, ruffed grouse and sharp-tailed grouse. Conditions of
abundance of these game birds are briefly as follows:
SPRUCE GROUSE: — Spruce grouse are present but scarce throughout the coniferous
forest of northern Ontario.
6 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
RUFFED GROUSE: — Except in a few localities where recovery has already com-
menced, the Ontario grouse population is at the lowest point of its natural periodic
cycle. The population is repeating exactly the pattern of ten years ago, and there is
no reason to doubt that recovery will follow in due course.
SHARP-TAILED GROUSE:— Sharp-tailed grouse, found in northern and western
Ontario, are at a low ebb in their cycle of numbers. A small number of this species
has become established in the area east of Sault Ste. Marie.
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE:— This species is not native to Ontario. Their existence in
the Province has resulted from the planting in certain sections of birds imported into
the Province. They are to be found principally in the southwestern counties of Essex and
Kent, and in the Counties of Dundas, Russell and Stormont in southeastern Ontario.
PHEASANTS: — During the past ten years efforts to re-stock this species in suitable
portions of the Province have varied from the practice which was prevalent earlier.
Previously it had been the policy to supply settings of eggs from the Bird Farm operated
by the Department to those who were sufficiently interested in the work to hatch the
eggs, raise the product thereof, and release the birds in localities in which environment
suitable to the welfare of the birds prevailed. Today and for the past few years the
Bird Farms have been operated under private control, and the poults produced have
been obtained by the Department from the operators. The birds thus provided have been
liberated under the supervision of Departmental officers principally in the townships
established as Regulated Game Preserve Areas and in the Counties of Essex and Kent.
Details of this distribution as carried out during the year now under review are in
accordance with the following statistical table:
COUNTY
TOWNSHIP
POULTS ADULTS TOTAL
HENS COCKS
Essex
General
1245
Kent
General
1320
Lambton
Plympton
210
Elgin
S. Dorchester
135
Bayham
166
Malahide
195
Dunwich
180
Aldborough
180
Total
General
Middlesex
30
Westminster
255
Metcalfe
90
Total
Middleton
Norfolk
165
N. Walsingham
135
Townsend
120
Windham
210
Total
East Oxford
Oxford
165
Dereham
210
Total-
1245
1320
210
855
375
80
80
16
16
726
471
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46
COUNTY
TOWNSHIP
POULTS
ADULTS
HENS COCKS
TOTAL
Brant
Dumfries
165
Burford
180
Onondaga
165
Total
Puslinch
Wellington
120
Total
Dunn
Haldimand
135
Cayuga S.
105
Canboro
105
Walpole
225
Oneida
135
Rainham
105
Seneca
135
Cayuga N.
105
Moulton
150
Sherbrooke
90
Total
Wainfleet
Welland
210
Humberstone
210
Crowland
210
Pelham
240
Thorold
270
Stamford
315
Bertie
170
Willoughby
255
•
Total
Grimsby North
Lincoln
180
Grimsby South
180
Clinton
270
Caistor
150
Gainsboro
255
Louth
345
Grantham
300
Niagara
300
Total
Trafalgar
Halton
405
Nelson
375
Esquesing
180
Nassagawaya
135
Total
General
Wentworth
45
Ancaster
315
Barton
255
Saltfleet
270
Flamboro W.
150
Flamboro E.
105
Beverley
135
Binbrook
105
Glanford
105
Total
80
80
85
16
16
17
702
222
1290
1880
1980
1095
1485
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
Peel
Toronto
450
Chinguacousy
450
Albion
135
Caledon
135
Toronto Gore
120
Total
Scarboro
York
255
Markham
330
Whitchurch
240
Vaughan
555
King
255
N. Gwillimbury
240
Total
Pickering
Ontario
330
East Whitby
135
West Whitby
135
Total
South Marysburg
Prince Edward
90
Total
General
Durham
50
Total
Bird Dog Trials
Miscellaneous
York County
50
Middlesex County
100
Essex County
50
Welland County
50
Lincoln County
50
Total
MISCELLANEOUS
(22 not released)
1290
95
95
95
19
35
19
105
21
2233
726
90
50
50
50
42
SUMMARY: Adults released 1,070
Poults released 17,595
Total released 18,665
400
42
The Regulations which established the open season for pheasants in 1945 provided
the following conditions, viz: —
Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., on October
24th, 26th and 27th, in the following regulated townships:
Caistor, Clinton, Gainsboro, Grantham, Grimsby North, Grimsby South, Louth
and Niagara in Lincoln County; and
Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham, Stamford, Thorold, Wainfleet and
Willoughby in Welland County.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46
Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., on October
26th and 27th, in the following regulated townships:
Marysburgh South in Prince Edward County;
Pickering, Whitby and Whitby East in Ontario County;
Gwillimbury North, King, Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan and Whitchurch
in York County;
Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto (part) and Toronto Gore in Peel
County;
Esquesing, Nassagawaya, Nelson and Trafalgar in Halton County;
Puslinch in Wellington County;
Ancaster, Barton, Beverley, Binbrook, Flamboro East, Flamboro West, Glan-
ford and Saltfleet in Wentworth County;
Canboro, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Dunn, Moulton, Oneida, Rainham,
Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole in Haldimand County;
Burford, Dumfries South and Onondaga in Brant County;
Middleton, Walsingham North and Windham in Norfolk County;
Dereham and Oxford East in Oxford County;
Bayham, Dorchester South and Dunwich in Elgin County;
Metcalfe and Westminster (part) in Middlesex County; and
Plympton in Lambton County.
Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on October
27th, in the Township of Townsend in Norfolk County.
Hunters participating in the pheasant shoot provided in the townships enumerated
above were required to provide themselves with the special licence issued by the
respective township authorities in addition to the regular hunting licence demanded by
the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act; and the bag limit provided by the
Regulations was three cock birds per day.
Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on November
1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Counties of Essex and Kent and the bag limit in this case was
also three cock birds per day.
Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on November
1st and 2nd, on Pelee Island. Those hunting pheasants during this open season on Pelee
Island were required to secure the special hunting licence issued by the Municipal
authorities in addition to the hunting licence issued by the Department. The bag limit
was five birds per day, not less than four of which were to be cocks. It was further
provided for the protection of these birds that hunting and the discharge of fire arms
would be prohibited on Pelee Island during the period from 5.00 p.m., October 24th, to
8.00 a.m., November 1st, or during the week previous to this open season for the taking
of pheasants.
QUAIL: — Birds of this species are quite scarce, nor do reports indicate any improve-
ment in conditions as they have existed in more recent years. They are limited, with
some minor exceptions, to the Counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton. No provision was
made for any open season in the fall of 1945.
DUCKS: — General conditions applicable to wild ducks were not altogether satisfactory
and as a result there was some evident diminution of their numbers and decreased
prevalence in certain areas throughout the Province in which, based on the experience
of previous seasons, it may have been anticipated that more satisfactory hunting
conditions might have prevailed. There were, of course, various sections in the southern
portion of the Province in which quite favourable conditions for the successful hunting
of wild ducks did prevail. Notwithstanding this apparent deterioration, the sport
provided by the hunting of this variety of our migratory waterfowl population continued
10 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
to attract the attention of hunters who derived from their participation therein a
substantial proportion of the pleasure and healthful recreation which accrues from the
pursuit of game. The legislation which provides protection for waterfowl is a Federal
Act, and the regulations which apply to govern this division of hunting are provided
under the authority of this legislation, viz: — The Migratory Birds Convention Act, or
"An Act Respecting a Certain Convention Between His Majesty and the United States
of America for the Protection of Migratory Birds in Canada and the United States."
The Regulations which were then in effect provided an open season for the hunting
of ducks in the fall of 1945 extending from September 15th to December 5th in the
northern zone, and from September 25th to December 15th in the southern zone. The
taking of eider ducks was allowed only in the territory lying north of the Quebec-
Cochrane- Winnipeg line of the Canadian National Railway, during the period from
September 15th to November 15th. The bag limits for ducks were 15 per day (increased
from 12 per day in 1944) and 150 per season, with a new proviso to the effect that not
more than one wood duck could be included in the daily bag limit.
GEESE: — ^There are but few sections in Ontario in which goose shooting is available,
the principal of which are located along the shores of James Bay in the far north, and
in the extreme southwestern portion of the Province, including the Counties of Essex,
Kent and Elgin. As is the case concerning ducks they ^re protected under the provisions
of the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Regulations which are thereunder
provided. The variety — Brant — is provided the protection of an entire close season,
and specimens of this variety are observed very infrequently in Ontario.
The periods of open season were similar to those provided in the case of ducks,
except in the Counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin in which section the open season
extended from November 1st to January 10th. Bag limits were five per day and 50 per
season.
WOODCOCK:— As a general rule this species is not plentiful, and it would appear from
reports which have been received that their occurrence in numbers sufficient for hunting
purposes is restricted to a few scattered areas.
In 1945 the open season provided by the Migratory Bird Regulations extended from
October 1st to October 31st, with a bag limit of eight per day and 100 per season.
SNIPE: — This species is not plentiful. Areas in which satisfactory hunting conditions
exist are scattered and restricted in extent.
The dividing line between the northern and southern zones is similar to that provided
for ducks and geese. In the northern zone, the open season in 1945 extended from
September 15th to November 15th, and in the south, from October 1st to November 30th.
Bag limits were eight per day and 50 for the season.
PLOVER: — Conditions are not favourable, and improvement is limited. Hunting of this
species was not permitted at any time during the period under review. This complete
protection, in accordance with the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations,
would appear to be essential if improvement is to be effected.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:— Regulations were promulgated to provide special
open seasons in accordance with the following details: —
DEER:—
(i) In those portions of Ontario lying south of the French and Mattawa Rivers and
Lake Nipissing, as defined in clauses (dd) and (ddd) of Section 7 of The Game
and Fisheries Act, the open season for deer in 1945 extended from November
5th to November 27th.
(ii) Ih that portion of the County of Carleton lying west of the Rideau River there
was an open season for deer in 1945 extending from November 5th to
November 27th.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 11
(iii) In the Counties of Grey, Bruce and Huron there was an open season for deer
in 1945 extending from November 19th to November 24th. The use of dogs for
hunting deer during this open season in these counties was prohibited.
(iv) At the request of the various Municipal Councils concerned, the hunting of deer
was permitted in 1945 in certain townships in counties in which these animals
are protected throughout the year in accordance with the provisions of clause
(d) of Section 7 of the Game and Fisheries Act, as follows:
On November 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th, in the Townships of Ellice, Logan
and North Easthope in Perth County; the Townships of Blandford and Blenheim
in Oxford County; the Township of Wilmot in Waterloo County; and the
Township of Moulton in Haldimand County.
On November 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th in the Townships of Esquesing,
Nassagaweya and Nelson in Halton County; and the Township of Erin in
Wellington County; and
On November 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th in the Townships of
Matilda, Mountain and Williamsburg in Dundas County.
In connection with the hunting of deer in these several townships, it was
stipulated that only shotguns, either buck-shot or S.S.G. shells as ammunition
could be used; that the use of dogs was not permitted; that hunters could each
take one deer, either buck or doe, over the age of one year; that special licences
to be secured from the respective township clerks, were necessary; and that it
was unlawful for hunters who had previously hunted deer in other parts of
Ontario in 1945 to hunt deer in these townships.
MOOSE: — For the taking of moose in 1945 during the period from October 15th to
October 31st in that portion of Ontario described in sub-clause (1) of clause (b) of
Section 7 of The Game and Fisheries Act and in the following portion of the area
defined in sub-clause (ii) of clause (b) of Section 7 of The Game and Fisheries Act, viz:
Bounded on the north by the main trans-continental line of the Canadian National
Railway, commencing at Mcintosh, thence easterly to Superior Junction; thence south-
easterly from Superior Junction along the line of the Superior Junction-Fort William
branch of the Canadian National Railway to Fort William; thence southwesterly from
Fort William along the north shore of Lake Superior to the international boundary at
the mouth of the Pigeon River, thence westerly along the international boundary from
the mouth of the Pigeon River to the westerly boundary of the District of Thunder Bay,
thence northerly along the westerly boundary of the District of Thunder Bay to the
southerly boundary of the District of Kenora; thence westerly along the southerly
boundary of the District of Kenora to the Base Line east of Britton Lake; thence
northerly along the aforesaid Base Line to the First Base Line, thence westerly along
the First Base Line to the easterly shore of Dryberry Lake, thence northerly along the
easterly shore of Dryberry Lake and the easterly boundary of the Lake of the Woods
Crown Game Preserve to Edison on the line of the C.P.R., thence northerly along the
easterly shore of Cobble Lake to Mcintosh, the point of commencement.
For the taking of moose in 1945 during the period from November 19th to November
27th in the Townships of Alice, Buchanan, Burns, Clara, Eraser, Head, Maria, McKay,
Petawawa, Richards, Rolph and Wylie in Renfrew County.
PARTRIDGE:— For the taking of partridge in 1945 during the period from October 6th
to 13th, with a bag limit of five birds per day and twenty birds for the season in that
portion of Ontario lying north and east of and including the Counties of Huron,
Wellington (excepting Puslinch Township), Dufferin, Simcoe and Ontario (excepting
the Townships of Pickering, Whitby and Whitby East), and south of the French and
Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing (excepting the Counties of Renfrew, Carleton,
Russell, and Prescott), and in that portion of Ontario lying north and west of the
French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing and east of the westerly boundary of
the Districts of Algoma and Cochrane.
12 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
SQUIRRELS: — For the taking of black and grey squirrels in 1945, on November 16th
and 17th, with a bag limit of five per day, in that portion of Ontario lying south of the
French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing.
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
From information which was received in the Department from various sources the
following summary has been prepared with reference to conditions respecting such
species of fur bearers which are known to exist in the Province.
BEAVER: — Continued to be quite plentiful throughout a large percentage of the area
within the borders of Ontario, though they are undoubtedly extremely scarce in many
of the southern counties, due to an entire lack of suitable environment for the develop-
ment of this species. Due to the satisfactory conditions which prevailed it was considered
necessary and desirable to provide an open season for the trapping of beaver during
1945, from December 1st to December 21st, in that portion of Ontario described as
follows, viz : —
Lying north and west of the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing, —
EXCEPT the District of Rainy River and that portion of the District of
Kenora lying south of the main line of the Canadian National Railway
running east from the Manitoba boundary to Superior Junction, and west of
the line of the Canadian National Railway running southeasterly from
Superior Junction to a point where it crosses the easterly boundary of the
District of Kenora in the vicinity of Reba and the easterly boundary of the
District of Kenora south from Reba to the boundary between the Districts
of Kenora and Rainy River,
and in the Districts of Manitoulin and Parry Sound and that portion of the District of
Nipissing lying south of the Mattawa River, and the Counties of Frontenac, Lanark
and Renfrew and those portions of the Counties of Hastings and Lennox and Addington
lying north of Highway No. 7.
Trappers were each allowed to take hot more than ten beaver during this open
season, and from returns submitted by trappers and fur-dealers, information has been
compiled from which it is observed that the total catch exceeded by practically 4,500
pelts the total of such pelts which accrued from trapping operations during the previous
open season, in 1944.
In addition to this general open season, a special open season for the taking of
beaver in 1945 was provided effective in the Townships of Sullivan and Bentinck in
Grey County, during the period from November 18th to December 1st. In this particular
instance trapping was restricted to trappers and farmers resident in the area. Each
individual so trapping was restricted to a catch of not more than ten beaver, and the
pelts so taken were required to be delivered to the Department for ultimate disposal
on behalf of the persons submitting the same.
On reference to a subsequent table, it will be noted that some 42,553 beaver were
taken in Ontario during the-se periods of open season, and it has been estimated that
these pelts were worth $2,160,841.34 to the trappers concerned, which is thirty per cent
of the total value of the entire fur catch during the year covered by this report.
FISHER: — While the total number of such pelts taken during the open season shows an
increase of practically thirty per cent as compared with the catch of the previous season,
it would be difficult to justify the assumption that such increase was attributable to any
extensive improvement in conditions as they apply to this species. Their numbers are
still extremely scarce and there are few sections in which they have been observed.
FOX: — These animals are sufficiently plentiful to be considered as a nuisance in many
sections, particularly in southern Ontario. Their abundance is detrimental to the
successful raising of domestic poultry, and is also a menace to the efforts of the
Department for the establishment in suitable areas and the protection of the more
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46
13
desirable species of game birds, to which we have been devoting a considerable portion
of our time and energy.
While the value of fox pelts taken during the season showed a large decrease as
compared with the price which was secured for fox pelts taken during the previous
season, reference to the comparative table which appears later on in this report will
show that the number of foxes taken in 1945-46 varies but slightly from the number
taken in 1944-45.
LYNX: — This species continues to be extremely scarce. There has been no increase in
the number taken and no improvement has been reported from any section. These
animals are not protected by any closed season and they may be taken at any time
during the trapping season.
MARTEN: — Here again, as in the case of fisher and Ijmx, we find a species which is
quite scarce, and w^hile the catch in 1945-46 exceeded that of 1944-45 by more than
sixty per cent, it may be remarked that the total reported as having been taken, viz.,
2,727, is quite meagre, and this increase should not be construed as an improvement to
that extent.
MINK: — This species continues to be fairly plentiful and is available in many sections
of the Province. The financial compensation derived by trappers from the sale of these
pelts constitutes a considerable portion of their revenue. It has been computed from
information which has been supplied to the Department that the value of mink pelts
taken by trappers represented twenty-two per cent of the value of the entire fur catch
resulting from trapping operations during the season which prevailed in the period
reviewed in this report.
MUSKRAT: — Conditions applicable to muskrats continued to be favourable throughout
most of the Province. There are, of course, areas in which environment suitable to the
propagation and development of this species does not exist with the result that in these
sections their numbers are very limited and trapping is, therefore, restricted. It has
been estimated that at least thirty per cent of the total value of the e-ntire fur catch of
1945-46 was attributable to the sale of muskrats.
The open season for the taking of muskrats is provided by Regulation, and while
this open season, due to varying climatic conditions which require varying periods in
different sections, generally speaking commences during the latter part of one fiscal
year and finishes during the early part of the succeeding fiscal year, it may be desirable
in accordance with the practice which was instituted in the previous Annual Report
to record the open season which prevailed for muskrat, and details of the areas and
periods of open season applicable thereto as provided in 1945 are appended hereto:
Period of Open Season
County or District
From
To
Brant
March
6th
March 30th
Bruce
March
17th
April 2nd
Carleton
March
17th
April 10th
Dufferin
March
6th
March 30th
Dundas
March
12th
April 5th
Durham
March
12th
April 5th
Elgin
March
6th
March 25th
Essex
March
5th
March 25th
(x) Frontenac (S)
March
12th
April 5th
(x) Frontenac (N)
March
17th
April 10th
Glengarry
March
12th
April 5th
Grenville
March
12th
April 5th
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County or District
From
To
Grey
March 17th
April 2nd
Haldimand
March 6th
March 25th
Haliburton
March 21st
April 10th
Halton
March 6th
March 30th
(x) Hastings (S)
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Hastings (N)
March 17th
April 10th
Huron
March 6th
March 30th
Kent
March 5th
March 25th
(x) Lambton (S)
March 5th
March 30th
(x) Lambton (N)
March 6th
March 30th
Lanark
March 17th
April 10th
Leeds
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Lennox and Addington (S)
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Lennox and Addington (N)
March 17th
April 10th
Lincoln
March 6th
March 25th
Middlesex
March 6th
March 30th
Muskoka
March 21st
April 10th
(x) Nipissing (S)
March 21st
April 10th
Norfolk
March 6th
March 25th
Northumberland
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Ontario (S)
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Ontario (N)
March 17th
April 10th
Oxford
March 6th
March 30th
Parry Sound
March 21st
April 10th
Peel
March 6th
March 30th
Perth
March 6th
March 30th
(x) Peterborough (S)
Miarch 12th
April 5th
(x) Peterborough (N)
March 17th
April 10th
Prescott
March 17th
April 10th
Prince Edward
March 12th
April 5th
Renfrew
March 21st
April 10th
Russell
March 17th
April 10th
(x) Simcoe (S)
March 6th
March 30th
(x) Simcoe (N)
March 17th
April 2nd
Stormont
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Victoria (S)
March 12th
April 5th
(x) Victoria (N)
March 17th
April 10th
Waterloo
March 6th
March 30th
Welland
March 6th
March 25th
Wellington
March 6th
March 30th
Wentworth
March 6th
March 30th
York
March 6th
March 30th
Algoma
March 30th
May 1st
Cochrane
March 30th
May 1st
Kenora
March 30th
May 21st
Manitoulin
March 30th
May 1st
(x) Nipissing (N)
March 30th
May 1st
Patricia
March 30th
May 21st
Rainy River
March 30th
May 21st
Sudbury
March 30th
May 1st
Timiskaming
March 30th
May 1st
Thunder Bay
March 30th
May 21st
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 15
(x) The dividing lines between the north and south sections of these counties and dis-
tricts for the purpose of this open season are respectively as follows, viz : —
Highway No. 7 in the counties of Frontenac, Hastings, Lambton, Lennox and
Addington, Peterborough and Victoria;
The Mattawa River in the District of Nipissing;
The north boundary of the townships of Brock and Scott in the County of
Ontario; and
The north boundary of the townships of Tossorontio, Essa and Innisfil in the
county of Simcoe.
OTTER: — This species is practically extinct in all of the southern counties and in the
remainder of the Province conditions are none too favourable. It is possibly correct to
state that there are but few signs which justify any anticipation of general improvement
in the immediate future. There was an increased number taken during the open season
which was provided.
RACCOON: — These animals exist only in the southern portion of Ontario. Unfavourable
climatic conditions which prevail during the winter months are not conducive to the
existence and development of raccoon in Northern Ontario. The catch during the 1945
season was about the same as that of the 1944 season. The demand for these pelts for
commercial purposes is limited with the result that trappers derive little financial benefit
from this product.
SKUNK : — It is difficult to conceive that any reliable trapper would willingly assume to
undertake the discomfort and inconvenience which must arise from the skinning of a
skunk carcass and the preparation of the pelt for the market for the meagre pittance
which he receives from the sale of such pelt. From the standpoint of public ease and
comfort these animals still continue to be too plentiful in many sections of this Province.
WEASEL : — Conditions applicable to this species vary in different sections. There was a
noticeable increase in the catch during the period under review. As compared with the
catch of the previous year this increase was in excess of forty per cent. Pelt values and
market conditions are not sufficiently favourable to encourage intensive trapping oper-
ations in respect to weasel.
GENERAL: — In addition to the open seasons which were provided by special recom-
mendation, as have been previously related, with reference to beaver and muskrat, open
seasons are established with respect to other fur-baring animals in accordance with
legislation included in the Game and Fisheries Act, as follows, viz: —
For fisher, fox, marten, mink and otter — from November 1st to February 28th; and
For raccoon — from November 1st to December Slst.
No protection in the way of a closed season is provided for lynx, skunk and weasel.
288
269
306
391
24,194
32,266
38,070
42,553
691
1,035
1,219
1,572
2,649
4,350
3,691
3,834
31,297
53,205
43,185
43,685
265
499
449
658
185
33
22
48
552
646
938
880
1,417
1,610
1,701
2,727
60,331
52,289
43,098
42,866
642,810
683,450
782,220
730,586
3,557
3,964
4,650
5,047
13,420
20,664
17,381
17,106
48,337
79,298
45,117
55,453
62,553
67,461
62,859
88,768
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The following is a comparative table indicating the number of pelts of various
species of fur-bearing animals taken in Ontario, and which were exported or dressed
during the fiscal year 1945-46 and the three preceding years: —
1942-43 1943-44 1944-45 1945-46
Bear
Beaver
Fisher
Fox ( Cross )
Fox ( Red)
Fox (Silver or Black)
Fox ( White)
Lynx
Marten
Mink '.
Muskrat
Otter
Raccoon
Skunk
Weasel
Trappers again experienced a rather profitable season. Generally speaking the fur
catch of all species was average or better, and according to information compiled in the
Department there was a marked increase in the market value of many species, including
beaver, marten, mink, muskrat, otter and weasel. This combination of favourable con-
ditions naturally resulted in a large increase in the revenue derived by trappers from the
marketing of the fur catch. It has been estimated that during the year this revenue to
trappers amounted to a total of $6,966,611.24. As compared with the returns secured
from a similar source in the previous year this represents an increase of $1,828,484.56 or
in excess of thirty-five per cent. The pelts which contributed principally to this total
were :
Beaver $2,160,841.34
Muskrat 2,148,122.84
Mink 1,518,313.72
From the remaining species previously mentioned in this paragraph and on the pelts
of which there was a reported increase in market value, i.e., marten, otter and weasel,
the returns accruing to trappers from the sale of such pelts amounted in all to a total
of $522,900.40.
In addition to the foregoing, it has be-en calculated from the records filed with the
Department that during this fiscal year now reviewed, licensed fur farmers marketed
the pelts of 62,635 mink, 26,998 silver or black fox, 941 blue fox and 138 cross fox, all of
which had an estimated value to the vendors of $3,013,401.26, an increase in value of
$1,161,316.77, or more than sixty per cent, as compared with the returns derived from
a similar source in the previous year.
From the statistics previously analyzed it may be observed that the value of the fur
marketed as a result of trapping and fur-farming operations amounted to the sum of
$9,980,012.50 or $2,989,801.33 in excess of this figure for the previous year, or an in-
crease in excess of forty per cent.
FUR FARMING
Despite the rising costs and scarcity of labour, feed and materials resulting from
war-time conditions, the Fur Farmers of the Province realized the highest prices for
their production known to the industry.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46
17
During the calendar year 1945, 1,304 Fur Farmer's Licences were issued, 1,093 of
these being renewals and 211 were for newly established farms.
SUMMARY OF BREEDING STOCK
LICENSED FUR FARMS
January 1st
1943
1944
1945
1946
Beaver
Fisher
Cross Fox
Red Fox
Silver Black Fox
Blue Fox
Platinum Fox
White Marked Fox
Lynx
Marten
Mink
Muskrat
Raccoon
Skunk
21
23
44
30
15
12
14
35
68
58
64
47
96
123
106
110
12,901
12,114
11,238
10,772
595
838
955
1,283
125
729
1,514
2,382
1,379
2,030
2,629
3,115
2
—
2
1
15
20
17
16
29,345
33,971
36,912
50,677
52
—
26
2
121
155
128
130
2
—
1
3
FUR FARMS IN ONTARIO
For the year 1945 by County or District
County or District No.
Algoma
20
Brant
8
Bruce
53
Carleton
25
Cochrane
11
Dufferin
4
Dundas
2
Durham
10
Elgin
15
Essex
12
Frontenac
21
Glengarry
3
Grenville
8
Grev
82
Haldimand
17
Haliburton
1
Halton
22
Hastings
8
Huron
52
County or District
No.
Kenora 20
Kent 22
Lambton 18
Lanark 77
Leeds 12
Lincoln 9
Manitoulin 18
Muskoka 11
Middlesex 50
Nipissing 6
Northumberland 4
Ontario 28
Oxford 23
Norfolk 11
Parry Sound 16
Peel 21
Perth 50
Peterboro 6
Prescott „ 4
County or District No.
Prince Edward 4
Rainy River 19
Renfrew 47
Russell 4
Simcoe „ 77
Stormont 4
Sudbury 8
Timiskaming 14
Thunder Bay 89
Victoria 15
Waterloo 39
Welland 4
Wellington 32
Wentworth 41
York 126
Total
.1,304
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DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
WOLF BOUNTY
The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty statistics for
a period of five years ending with the fiscal year 1945-46.
Timber Brush Pups Total
Bounty &
Expenses
For year ending Mar. 31, 1942 .... 1,199
For year ending Mar. 31, 1943 935
For year ending Mar. 31, 1944 1,302
For year ending Mar. 31, 1945 1,321
For year ending Mar. 31, 1946 1,266
577
37
1,813
$40,593.77
497
32
1,464
30,606.62
731
32
2,065
46,545.75
665
12
1,998
45,993.58
777 •
30
2,073
44,999.87
The usual bounty of $25.00 on a timber or brush wolf over three months of age and
$5.00 on a timber or brush wolf pup was paid by the Department for the destruction of
these predators.
Although more wolves were taken during the last fiscal year than in any year since
1944, less money was expended on bounty. This is attributable to the fact that there
were more wolves killed in the counties, and on which animals the Department pays only
forty per cent of the bounty, the remaining sixty per cent being paid by the respective
counties.
There was a total of 1,535 claims for bounty on 2,073 wolves, 20 of these claims
involving 29 wolves were refused for various reasons. In addition, 12 claims for bounty
on 21 wolves were pending at the end of the fiscal year and were carried forward to the
next fiscal year for payment.
The following tabulation indicates the total number of wolves killed in each county
and district and for which applications for payment of bounty were received: —
County
Timber
Brush
Pups
Total
Brant
Bruce
17
12
45
1
4
10
33
48
16
3
22
2
3
4
19
8
4
7
2
2
7
17
2
21
12
7
16
2
17
41
5
8
5
9
5
39
Carleton
Durham
2
3
Essex
12
Frontenac
36
Grenville
8
Grey
Hastings
H uron
;
4
52
3
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
-
11
12
21
Leeds
2
Lennox & Addinc^ton
31
Norfolk
Northumberland
Peterborough
12
7
49
Renfrew
50
Simcoe
33
Victoria
Wellington ,
44
York
5
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 19
Ontario 10 4 14
Welland 18 9
Halton 1 1
Dundas 1 1
Elgin „ .4 4
Peel 1 1
Total Counties 200 239 27 466
Districts
Algoma 97 73 170
Cochrane
Haliburton
Kenora
Manitoulin
Muskoka »
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River ,
Sudbury
Timiskaming
Thunder Bay
12
3
23
2
235
110
31
119
13
16
79
18
65
6
67
8
155
66
127
55
15
166
85
25
1
346
5
155
29
97
71
75
221
182
15
5
256
Total Districts 1,085 561 11 1,657
GRAND TOTAL 1,285 800 38 2,123
On November 1st, 1942, the regulation which provided for the return to the applicant
of wolf pelts which had been submitted to the Department to support claims for bounty
was repealed. Since then the Department has made such pelts available to the Seamen's
Fur Vests War Project for the manufacture into jackets for the use of personnel of the
Naval Service and Merchant Marine.
From November 1st, 1942, until June 21st, 1945, or shortly after the cessation of
hostilities in the European theatre, 4,628 wolf pelts were made available by the Depart-
ment to this project.
Mr. Alexander D. Schatz, Chairman of the Ontario Division of the Seamen's Fur
Vests War Project, passed for the Department's perusal his file of letters of appreci-
ation and gratitude, received from Naval personnel for the gifts of fur vests. From
reading this file, it was evident that the fur jackets produced by this organization were
deeply appreciated by our fighting men and added greatly to their comfort and morale.
BEAR BOUNTY
In accordance with on Order-in-Council dated June 15th, 1943, the Department con-
tinued the payment of $10.00 bounty to control the population of bears.
A total of 940 claims were filed with the Department for bounty on the 1,167 bears
killed. However, 25 of these claims on 34 bears, were disallowed for failing to comply
with the regulations.
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A breakdown showing the number of bears killed in counties and districts follows: —
County or District Number
Algom a 1 92
Bruce 8
Cochrane 145
Frontenac 5
Haliburton 32
Hastings 39
Kenora 31
Lennox and Addington 9
Manitoulin 8
Muskoka 9
Nipissing 53
Parry Sound 90
Peterborough 10
Rainy River 105
Renfrew 43
Sudbury 148
Thunder Bay 53
Timiskaming 186
Victoria 1
Total 1,167
TOURIST OUTFITTERS
In anticipation of a revival and substantial increase in the volume of the tourist
trade following cessation of hostilities, there was much activity in the tourist industry.
Established Outfitters were anxious to rehabilitate and enlarge their camps; camps
closed during the war period were re-opened; non-residents seemed interested to invest
capital in the industry and many members of the Canadian Armed Forces being de-
mobilized, some of them former guides or woodsmen, contemplated the establishment of
a commercial resort in their favourite locality as a means of re-establishing themselves
in civilian life.
The continuing policy of according a priority to ex-servicemen for authorities to
establish a new camp was a stimulating factor in the sale of licensed camps. During
the year 34 camps changed ownership and property value increased materially.
Two hundred and fifty-four applications to establish camps were received, of which
65 were refused in the interest of conservation of fishing and hunting resources and the
welfare of the tourist industry; at the end of the year, March 31st, 1946, 40 were de-
ferred in favour of the soldier's preference or pending further consideration; and 149
permits were granted; but shortages in materials and supplies hampered erection of
buildings or delayed completion.
Six hundred and thirty-four Tourist Outfitters* Camp Licences were issued, 42
authorizing the operation of new camps and 592 renewals. Five hundred and sixty-eight
licences were issued at the resident fee of $10.00 and 66 at the non-resident fee of $25.00.
The following is a summary, by Districts, of Tourist Outfitters' Camp Licences
which were issued during the year: —
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 21
District
Total
Non-Resident
Resident
Licences
16
71
87
6
6
22
124
146
3
55
58
7
87
94
7
112
119
4
4
3
29
32
13
13
5
46
51
5
5
3
16
19
Algoma
Cochrane
Kenora
Manitoulin
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Patricia
Rainy River
Renfrew
Sudbury
Timiskaming
Thunder Bay
Total Licences Issued .... 66 568 634
ENFORCEMENT
The legislation and regulations assigned to this Department for administration,
viz : — The Game and Fisheries Act and the Regulations provided thereundeT, the Special
Fishery Regulations for the Province of Ontario and the Migratory Birds Convention
Act and Regulations, are necessary for the effective perpetuation of our fish and wild-
life resources. They have been designed with a view to providing the greatest possible
individual liberty consistent with the wise use of these resources. These laws and reg-
ulations are generally respected by a large majority of the residents of the Province
and their observance has become more and more a passport to good sportsmanship.
However, despite their simplicity, we still are confronted on occasion by the law-breaker
and the poacher, the one who still continues to ignore legal restrictions and who thereby
takes an unfair advantage of those who while hunting, fishing or trapping, make a
sincere endeavour to comply with the restrictive provisions which govern.
Enforcement officers are keenly alert to this improper situation and are doing
everything they possibly can to convince the violator of the error of his ways. While
it is almost too much to anticipate that we can entirely eliminate this contingency, there
is good reason to believe that through organized and united effort, we can do much to
convince the careless and the thoughtless that compliance with the legislation and reg-
ulations which have been provided for the protection of our fish and wildlife natural
resources is just as important as is a proper respect for other laws. Public opinion has a
restraining influence over those who are tempted to break any law, while proper support
will almost always ensure ultimate success.
A perusal of the laws and regulations will convince even the most skeptical that
they form an important section of the programme which is being developed and which
is necessary for the conservation of our fish and game, and that when appeals are made
to the public to observe the laws and regulations, they are made from a desire to secure
co-operation in the management of a valuable asset. Non-observance of these laws and
regulations, however unimportant the details may seem, is unfair to that ever-increasing
number of sportsmen and nature lovers who conscientiously obey the provisions and
pursue their recreational pleasures from the highest standards of sportsmanship.
The Department maintains a staff of permanent field officers whose duty it is to
enforce and secure observance of the provisions of this legislation and the regulations
periodically adopted and for the proper enforcement of which this Department is re-
sponsible.
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The services of this field staff are augmented by the assistance and co-operation of
members of the Ontario Provincial Police Force and numerous seasonal overseers whose
services are retained for the provision of more adequate patrol service along important
waters during the spring and fall spawning periods as well as during the various fall
hunting seasons.
That interested sportsmen are concerned in this branch of our activity is attested
to by the fact that several hundred offer their services and are provided with appoint-
ments as Deputy Game and Fishery Wardens, who, as such, are authorized to assist our
efforts to provide proper enforcement service.
While there will probably always be a number of necessary seizures and prosecu-
tions, it is felt that this procedure, in minor cases, is perhaps not a desirable method of
securing the desired observance of the Act and Regulations. It is probably true that
many infractions result from a lapse to thoughtlessness as well as from a lack of
knowledge concerning the real value of our wildlife heritage. With this in mind efforts
have been made to acquaint the public with the economic and recreational value of these
resources with the hope that the spread of knowledge which may result will encourage
a better observance of the provisions.
Without the supervision of enforcement officers conditions would quite probably get
out of control and as a result the interest of sportsmen would wane. The Game Warden
is authorized under his appointment to act as an enforcement officer but it is essential
that he should receive the co-operation of all in order to make a success of his work. If
our game and fish are to be protected, all concerned should assume their share of the
responsibility therefore.
During the fiscal year which is reviewed in this report, there were 1,856 cases in
which seizures were made subsequent to infractions. These seizures were the result of
action provided by, —
Overseers - in 1685 cases.
Provincial Police „ in 11 cases,
Municipal Police in 10 cases.
Deputy Game Wardens in 42 cases.
Overseers and Deputy Game Wardens in 47 cases.
Overseers and Provincial Police in 48 cases.
Overseers and Municipal Police « in 12 cases.
Provincial Police and Deputy Game Wardens in 1 case.
The following is a summary of the articles which were seized in these cases, viz: —
Live Animals and Birds _ in 5 cases
Birls, game animals and meat in 153 cases
Fire-arms and ammunition in 915 cases
Fish in 183 cases
Nets and fishing gear in 141 cases
Angling equipment ~ in 116 cases
Pelts and hides - in 311 cases
Traps and trapping equipment in 191 cases
Water-craft in 13 cases
Outboard motors in 7 cases
Motor vehicles in 6 cases
Flashlights and lanterns ~ >.....in 39 cases
Spears in 63 cases
Miscellaneous articles in 103 cases
The combined total of the articles enumerated in the preceding tabulation exceeds
the number of cases in which seizure of articles were made, but this apparent discrepancy
may be explained by the fact that there are many seizure reports submitted to the De-
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 23
partment in which articles in more than one of these classifications are included, e.g.,
fire-arms and game, traps and pelts, fish and fishing gear, as well as other com-
binations.
An examination of our records reveals that the fire-arms confiscated during the year
consisted of 499 small calibre rifles, such as .22's and .25's; 184 heavy calibre rifles, such
as .250-.300O, .25-.35, .270, .30, .300, .303, .30-30, .30-40, .32, .32-40, .348, .35, .351, .38, .38-40,
.38-.55, .405, .40-82, .44, .44-.40, .57, 6.5 m.m. and 8 m.m.; one revolver; 27 air guns; 110
single-barrel shot-guns; 80 double-barrel shot-guns; 43 repeating shot-guns; 9 auto-
matic shot-guns; and 4 .22-410 combination rifle and shot-guns.
Details of confiscated pelts of fur-bearing animals are as follows : —
Beaver 908
Fisher 10
Fox 112
Lynx 2
Mink 59
Muskrat 816
Otter 20
Raccoon 69
Skunk „ 6
Squirrel • 37
Weasel 28
Deer and Moose Hides 39
Subsequent to the actual seizures, informations were laid and presecution of the
various charges were undertaken in 1,486 cases. Convictions were registered and pen-
alties imposed by the presiding Magistrates in 1,420 of these cases. The charges were
dismissed, principally due to the lack of evidence, in 58 cases, and in the remaining 8
cases the charges were withdrawn.
An analysis of the 1,420 cases in which convictions were registered shows that in
1,391 of these actions the charges were laid by Game and Fisheries Officers, in 25 actions
by Provincial Police Constables, and in the remaining 4 actions by Overseers and Con-
stables in co-operation with each other.
In those cases in which the charges were dismissed, 58, and in which the charges
were withdrawn, 8, Game and Fisheries Officers were responsible for the charges which
had been laid.
REPORT OF THE FISH CULTURE BRANCH
One of Ontario's chief assets is its fisheries, and the maintenance and development
of game and commercial fishing interests, in a practical manner, is the primary function
of the Department.
Fisheries management is a complex undertaking, involving different species, spawn-
ing seasons and habitat preferences. It is obvious therefore that physical, chemical and
biological facts of lake and streams must be known for intelligent action. In other
words, an inventory of the aquatic resources of our lakes and streams is basic to any
well-planned fish cultural programme.
Canada has the distinction of having been the pioneer in North America in rearing
fish as a government enterprise. The first fry hatched from artificially fertilized eggs
were produced in 1858, and fish culture was established as a Dominion Government
service in 1867. For many years this service was conducted, purely, under Dominion
auspices. In 1909, an experiment was conducted at Brantford, Ontario, on bass rearing;
24 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
it was so successful that bass ponds were permanently established at Mount Pleasant,
near Brantford, in 1911. Progressively, from year to year, additional rearing facilities
for other species were provided. On July 1, 1926, the Province took over the Dominion
Hatcheries at Kenora, Port Arthur, Collingwood, Wiarton, Southampton, Samia, Kings-
ville and Belleville, and from that date fish rearing in Ontario was wholly a provincial
undertaking.
At the present time, 27 hatcheries and rearing stations are operated. The following
table gives a brief account of the number of stations handling different species of fish
and their stage, age and length at distribution.
No. of
Age in
Inches
Stations
Species
Stage
months
Length in
12
Speckled trout
Yearlings
14-19
4-8
5
Brown trout
Yearlings
14-19
4-8
2-1)
Rainbow trout
Yearlings
14-19
4-8
1)
Rainbow trout fingerlings
9
Lake trout (Yearlings at 3,
fingerlings at the remainder)
10
Whitefish
Fry
9
Yellow Pickerel
Fry
1
Blue pickerel and perch
Fry
4
Herring
Fry
1
Maskinonge
Fry and fingerlings
6-5)
Small mouthed black bass
'
;<
1)
Large mouthed black bass
'
:<
A fish that is 12 months old, from the time of hatching, is a yearling. A fish one
inch long or over is a fingerling or undetyearling. Fry are those fish that have just
recently hatched.
THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH
Speckled Trout:
Approximately 3,006,000 speckled trout yearlings and 4,500 speckled trout adults
were planted in suitable waters during the year. The distribution of yearlings was V/v
higher than that of the preceding year. The distribution of adults was fractionally
higher, and the fingerlings distributed showed a decrease of 76% as it is not the policy
of the Department to plant trout younger than yearlings.
Brown Trout:
One-quarter million yearlings were planted; a decrease of 32%, as compared with
1944.
Rainbow Trout:
(a) Steelhead trout:
Only a few thousand eggs were collected and these were planted in the fry
stage.
(b) Kamloops trout:
There was an increase of 25% in the yearling distribution as compared with the
preceding year.
Atlantic Salmon:
Again, through the courtesy of the Department of Fisheries at Ottawa, our Depart-
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ment obtained a consignment of Atlantic Salmon Eggs from Miramichi Hatchery, South
Esk, N.B. The distribution of the fingerlings showed an increase over the preceding
year of 38%.
Lake Trout:
Total distribution was as follows:
765,000 fry
7,248,040 fingerlings
88,700 yearlings
The hatcheries were able to hold the fry to the advanced fingerling stage, and while
there was a decrease of 74% in the fry distribution, the fingerling distribution showed
an increase of 110%, and the yearling distribution an increase of 100% over the preced-
ing year.
Whitefish:
The collection of whitefish eggs in 1945 was down slightly from the preceding year
at all spawning grounds. This made a slight decrease of 7% in the distribution.
Herring:
This year's distribution showed an increase of 13% over last year.
Yellow Pickerel, or Pike-Perch :
This spring there was unfavourable spawn taking weather at three of the spawn-
taking grounds, operating from Fort Frances, Kenora and Little Current Hatcheries.
As a result there was a decrease of 35% in the distribution this year as compared with
1944.
Small-Mouthed Black Bass:
There was a considerable decrease in the number reared this year, on account of
the difficulty in obtaining a suitable number of breeders for the breeding ponds. How-
ever, the distribution of breeders and the transplantation of yearlings was 88% higher
than the previous year.
Large-Mouthed Black Bass:
Five thousand fingerlings were successfully reared and distributed from one pond
at Mount Pleasant hatchery.
Yellow Perch:
Yellow perch spawn is collected from Lake Erie in the vicinity of Kingsville. The
catch in this area is subjected to wide fluctuations, as indicated by reference to preceding
annual reports. There was a 34% decrease this year, as compared with that of 1944.
Maskinonge:
The distribution of maskinonge fry was 25% less than that of the preceding year,
owing to unsatisfactory weather conditions, which affected the normal growth and food
supply.
CLOSED WATERS
In addition to the waters already closed for the natural protection and propagation
of fish, the following were closed during the year April 1st, 1945 to March 31st, 1946.
Adam Lake
Located in unorganized territory north of Clay Lake and between Fluke Lake and
Segise Lake, District of Kenora.
All Public Lakes
Township of Humphrey, District of Parry Sound.
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Belmont Lake
Portions known as Taylor's Bay and Munn's' Bay, Township of Belmont, County
of Peterborough.
Big Thessalon River
From Poplar Dale Bridge to Nolens Flats, Township of Morin, District of Algoma.
Chemong Lake
That portion located
as follows:
Lots
Concessions
Township
County
1-2-3
IV
Smith
Peterborough
23
IV
Emily
Victoria
22-23
V
Emily
Victoria
Dead Creek
Township of North Crosby, County of Leeds.
Deer Bay
Portion known as Black Duck Lake, Township of Harvey, County of Peterborough.
Devil Lake
Portion located south-east of Jones' Bridge, Township of Bedford, County of
Frontenac.
Eagle Lake
Townships of Hinchinbrooke, Bedford and Olden, County of Frontenac.
Harvey or Nogies Creek
From dam at Bass Lake to dam near Pigeon Lake, Townships of Galway and
Harvey, County of Peterborough.
Little Mud Lake
Portion located on lots 27 and 28, concession 14, Township of Smith, County of
Peterborough.
Long Lake
Township of Lansdowne, County of Leeds.
Newboro Lake
That portion known as "The Bog" excluding "Lucky Bay," Township of South
Crosby, County of Leeds.
North River
From the closed portion of Taylor's Bay to the first bridge upstream. Township of
Belmont, County of Peterborough.
North River
Portion known as Searight's Bay, Township of Belmont, County of Peterborough.
Opinicon Lake
That portion known as Darling's Bay, Township of Storrington, County of Frontenac.
Scugog River
Portion known as Goose Lake, Township of Femelon, County of Victoria.
Sulphur Creek
That portion from Byng Bridge west, Haldimand County.
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Whitefish Lake
That portion in vicinity of Jones' Falls north of bridge and fifty feet south of
bridge, Township of South Crosby, County of Leeds.
White Pine Lake
Township of Gamble, District of Timiskaming.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS
ATLANTIC SALMON EXPERIMENT, DUFFIN CREEK SYSTEM,
ONTARIO COUNTY
"This experiment, initiated in 1944, is being carried out for a twofold purpose.
Primarily, it is an attempt to reintroduce Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) into Lake
Ontario and tributary streams and, secondly, to determine the efficiency of restocking
streams with hatchery raised fish. This is an excellent opportunity to do the latter
because here a species is being introduced which is not already present in the stream
system which eliminates any confusion between the introduced fish and those which
are the result of natural propagation.
During June of 1944, 1945 and 1946, approximately 40,000 salmon fry were planted
each year. These salmon were distributed evenly over the stream system which includes
many types of streams. By seining, and other methods, the number of salmon present
in each section of the stream was estimated and from this the number which survive out
of a definite number planted may be calculated.
Work to date has largely been confined to determining the salmon distribution and
survival in the various types of streams. This gives a good indication of the types of
streams preferred by salmon as it was found that some streams had few or no survivors
whereas others had a large number of survivors. Work is now being carried out to
determine what attributes a stream must have to qualify as a good salmon stream.
The more important factors affecting salmon distribution are light, temperature, food,
rate of flow, type of bottom, overhead cover, sedimentation, and the number of other
species present.
An estimation of the number of salmon present in the whole stream system,
including the areas where none was found to survive, as of October, 1946, showed that
approximately 16% of the salmon planted in 1946 and 8% of those planted in 1945
were still present in the stream system.
Although the experiment is still in its early stages, results thus far indicate that
if salmon are planted in favourable streams a large percentage will survive for at least
two years of stream life, at which time they are expected to descend the streams.
Traps are to be constructed in the stream during the spring of 1947 to determine the
number of descending smolts.
It has been found that the rate of growth of these salmon parr is comparable with
that of the salmon of the Maritime Provinces."
Biological surveys were carried out on:
Pond at Hagersville.
Pond at Simcoe.
Lake on Golf Course at Renfrew.
The south end of Lake Simcoe was examined with regard to a sudden mortality of
fish in that area. The fish affected were largely bullheads but some pike, black bass
and rock bass also died. Cause of the mortality was not determined but it is believed
that it was due to a disease of a bacterial or virus nature.
28 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
A dam on Balphorine Creek, near Havelock in Peterboro County, was examined
with regard to the necessity of a fishway. This was not deemed necessary in this case.
Hatchery Sites
During the year hatchery sites at the following locations were examined to deter-
mine their suitability as possible future sites for hatcheries and rearing stations:
Frontenac County:
Devil's Lake at Bedford Mills.
Rock Lake, five miles west of Chaffey's Locks.
Leeds County:
O'Neill's Creek, nine miles from Gananoque.
Cullen Brook, Township of Bastard, Lot 21, Con. 7.
Basin Lake, Township of Lansdowne.
Spring stream and outlet of Mud Lake, vicinity of Portland.
Outlets of Wolfe Lake and Sand Lake (vicinity of Westport).
Lanark County:
Pike Lake, Burgess Township.
Black Lake, Burgess Township.
Silver Lake, Sherbrooke Township.
Outlets of Dalhousie, Christie and Bennett's lakes.
Grey County:
Streams in the vicinities of Flesherton and Markdale.
Silver Creek, ten miles from Collingwood.
Spring creek rising at Rob Roy, Lot 32, Con. 13.
Simcoe County :
Small creek due west of town of Penetang.
Deep-seated springs in the vicinity of Midland waterworks.
Copeland's Creek, at headwaters of Coldwater River.
Joe Jimo's Creek and an unnamed stream also in the vicinity of the Coldwater River.
Wellington County :
Several streams in the Guelph area including Robinson Creek, a pond at Hillsburg
and Hindley Creek, Sixth Line of Eramosa.
Nipissing District:
Springs in vicinity of Redbridge approximately 10.5 miles from the North Bay
Trout Rearing Station.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The wild life of the Province constitutes a resource of tremendous importance and
value. It is a heritage of the Crown, and the policies which govern the administration
of this trust are based on the premise that every citizen has an equity in these resources.
There is a duty imposed on every sportsman in this era of proper control and wise
use which implies a proper respect for the rules which govern. This is the test of true
sportsmanship and the best possible contribution the individual can make to the
conservation of our wild life resources.
The co-operation of the various Sportsmen's Associations and similar organizations
throughout the Province as well as the individual co-operation of all those who from
the standpoint of recreation or conservation have interested themselves in the protection
of these resources is deeply appreciated.
The effect of organized effort along educational lines has been to create a new
appreciation of the value of our fish and game resources and the problems involved in
their perpetuation. With a constructive programme as a base and an enlightened public
opinion to support our efforts, we may look to the future with confidence.
In conclusion, the services rendered by members of the Departmental staff, both at
headquarters and in the field have, generally speaking, been satisfactory. They have
performed their duties in a conscientious manner, and were particularly courteous in
their contacts with the public with whom they had any dealings.
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APPENDIX NO. 1
SPECIES AND QUANTITIES OF FISH PLANTED IN PROVINCIAL WATERS
April 1st, 1945, to March 31st, 1946
LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
Fingerlings
Victoria
York
4,000
1,000
SMALL-MOUTHED BLACK BASS
Fry
Hastings ^.
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Simcoe
Fingerlings
Algoma
Bruce
Elgin
Frontenac
Granville » >
Grey
H al dim and
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings
Huron
Kent
Lambton
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Mi ddlesex „
Muskok a
Nipissing
Northumberl and
Ontario ^
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel „
Perth
Peterborough
Renfrew
Russell
Simcoe
Sudbury
Timiskaming
Victoria
15,000
200,000
20,000
155,000
48,000
10,000
45,500
9,000
1,500
34,000
1,000
3,000
500
4,000
2,100
2,418
500
500
1,000
17,000
11,000
10,000
500
26,000
500
8,100
7,000
1,500
500
1,000
40,200
400
500
7,800
10,250
1,000
4,500
84,600
1,000
7,000
Waterloo ..
Welland
Wellington
Yearlings and Adults
Brant
Haliburton ^
Hastings
Kenora ~
Manitoulin -
Norf ol k ^
Northumberl and
Parry Sound
Peel ~
Peterborough
SPECKLED TROUT
Eyed Eggs
Kenora
Fingerlings
Algom a
Kenora
Northumberland -..
Thunder Bay „
Yearlings
Algoma
Brant
Bruce
Cochrane ..
Dufferin
Durham
Elgin
Frontenac
Grey ,
Haliburton
Halton
Hastings .,
Huron
Kenora
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox
Lincoln
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Norfolk
Northumberland
2,000
500
500
42
150
300
947
496
40
520
385
10
2.432
5,000
8,000
3,000
11,500
94,800
504,500
6,600
25,500
131,700
19,750
38,350
20,400
63,040
120,300
37,900
3,800
121,000
17,700
5,500
4,800
4,800
38,600
2,400
115,500
138,600
181,800
31,800
56,618
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Ontario
Oxford
Parry Sound
Peel
Peterborough
Rainy River ...
Simcoe
Sudbury
Thunder Bay
Timiskaming
Victoria
Waterloo
Wellington ...
Wentworth ...
York
Algoma
Northumberland
Peel
Adults
HERRING
Fry
Lake Erie
Lake Huron ....
Lake Ontario
MASKINONGE
Fry
Dundas
Grenville ........
Hastings .....~
Leeds
Manitoulin .,
Muskoka
Nipissing
Northumberland
Ontario
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Prince Edward „...
Simcoe -.
Sudbury
Victoria
Waterloo
Fingerlings
Northumberland
Peterborough
MINNOWS
Adults
Kent .....
RAINBOW TROUT
Fry
Algoma
2,800
9,000
164,300
25,500
63,200
151,300
35,700
419,350
227,150
139,865
8,000
27,300
34,250
3,600
3,300
3,760
200
500
405,000
3,000,000
3,000,000
10,000
10,000
200,000
20,000
20,000
10,000
10,000
220,000
30,000
10,000
930,000
80,000
60,000
20,000
390,000
10,000
120
80
4,000
5,563
ATLANTIC SALMON
Fry
Ontario
KAMLOOPS TROUT
Yearlings
Muskoka
Parry Sound
Wellington ..
41,350
5,400
2,500
2,000
YELLOW PERCH
Fry
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
1,000,000
11,000,000
BROWN TROUT
Eyed Eggs
Exchange 50,000
Yearlings
Brant 6,000
Durham 5,600
Elgin 12,700
Grey 33,900
Haldimand - 3,600
Halton 14,250
Hastings 6 ,800
Huron 9,600
Middlesex „ 1 ,800
Norfolk 24,450
Northumberland 2,749
Oxford > 14,400
Parry Sound 3,600
Peel 24,400
Perth 3,600
Peterborough 2,100
Simcoe 14,400
Waterloo 13 ,400
Welland 4,400
Wellington ".... 13,400
Wentworth 3,600
York 6,000
WHITEFISH
Fry
Kenora
Rainy River .
Lake Superior .
North Channel
Georgian Bay .
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
32,370,000
17,980,000
1,522,275
7,000,000
40,614,500
24,400,000
84,300,000
32
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
Lake Ontario
Thunder Bay
Manitoulin . —
LAKE TROUT
Fry
North Channel
Lake Superior .
30,500,000
1,600,000
500,000
590,000
175,000
Fingerlings
Lake Superior 2
North Channel
Georgian Bay 1
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Algoma
Frontenac
Haliburton
Hastings ,
Kenora
Lanark
Leeds
Lennox
Manitoulin
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Peterborough
Rainy River
Renfrew
Simcoe
Sudbury .......
Thunder Bay
Yearlings
Bruce
Cochrane
Muskoka
Nipissing
Parry Sound
Simcoe
Timiskaming
,629,540
800,000
,840,000
545,100
15,500
308,000
18,000
130,500
31,000
75,000
4,000
3,500
6,000
75,000
305,000
88,000
374,000
45,000
21,900
70,000
45,000
174,000
144,000
4,300
2,000
20,000
30,600
15,000
6,000
10,800
YELLOW PICKEREL (Pike-Perch)
Fry
Algoma -....- 14,275,000
Bruce - 4,075,000
Cochrane 3,900,000
Dundas 1,000,000
Frontenac - 7,800,000
Grenville 1,000,000
Grey 750,000
Haliburton 1,250,000
Hastings 5,650,000
Kenora „ 16,000,000
Kent 500,000
Lambton 750,000
Lanark 5,250,000
Leeds 2,000,000
Lennox 8,620,000
Lincoln 100,000
Manitoulin 4,900,000
Middlesex 300,000
Muskoka 1,225,000
Nipissing 8,250,000
Northumberland 1,900,000
Ontario 100,000
Oxford 1,200,000
Parry Sound 1,000,000
Peterborough 4,200,000
Prince Edward 800,000
Rainy River 19,500,000
Renfrew 4,200,000
Russell 250,000
Simcoe 2,250,000
Stormont - 500,000
Sudbury 8,850,000
Timiskaming 8,850,000
Thunder Bay 3,900,000
Victoria 1 ,400,000
Welland 300,000
Lake of the Woods 17,550,000
Lake Superior 6,000,000
North Channel 1.750,000
Lake Huron 4,600,000
Lake Erie 1,200,000
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 33
APPENDIX NO. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF FISH ACCORDING TO SPECIES, 1941 to 1945 INCLUSIVE
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Large-mouthed Black Bass
Fry 110,000 185,000 507,500 130,000
Fingerlings 17,700 19,100 38,500 14,600 5,000
Adults & Yearlings 109 290 290 51
Small-mouthed Black Bass
Fry 1,911,500 1,535,500 1,512,000 2,030,000 448,000
Fingerlings 691,925 718,259 392,700 664,400 348,368
Yearlings & Adults 2,254 2,355 1,369 2,834 5,322
Maskinonge
Fry 2,100,000 1,575,000 1,165,000 2,705,000 2,030,000
Fingerlings 1,494 705 2,150 2,952 200
Minnows
Adults 500 . 25,000 4,000
Perch
Fry 31,600,000 24,175,000 19,000,000 18,480,000 12,000,000
Pickerel (Yellow)
Fry 227,990,000 301,760,000 263,875,000 271,265,000 177,595,000
Pickerel (Blue)
Fry 150,000
Brown Trout
Eyed Eggs 10,000 50,000
Fingerlings 60,000 23,000 1,000
Yearlings 346,188 359,275 303,335 330,750 224,749
Lake Trout
Eyed Eggs 800,000 400,000 200,000 200,000
Fry _ 913,000 367,000 125,000 2,976,500 765,000
Fingerlings 18,066,400 15,429,600 8,048,800 3,475,995 7,248,040
Yearlings 10,680 60,860 44,018 88,700
Atlantic Salmon
Fry .„^ 30,000 41,350
Rainbow Trout
Fry 5,563
Fingerlings 164,000 111,000 73,242 32,186
Yearlings 11,750 12,900 15,450 3,900
Kamloops Trout
Fingerlings 88,150
Yearlings 25,000 24,800 5,000 7,200 9,900
Speckled Trout
Fry 500 5,000 5,000
Fingerlings 394,000 631,775 9,400 493,840 117,300
Yearlings ..«. . .. 3,060,174 2,918,513 3,083,983 2,876,963 3,005,573
Adults 16,732 7,527 10,292 4,360 4,460
Whitefish
Fry 375,960,500 395,052,000 371,677,500 259,435,000 240,786,775
Herring
Fry 8,630,000 18,430,000 24,560,000 5,662,000 6,405,000
TOTALS 672,960,876 763,750,279 694,833,371 570,892,549 451,193,300
34
DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES
APPENDIX
GAME AND FISHERIES
Statistics of the Fishing Industry in the Public Waters
EQUIP
DISTRICT
No.
of
Men
TUGS
GASOLINE
LAUNCHES
SAIL AND
ROW BOATS
GILL
NETS
No.
Tons
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
Yards
Value
Northern Inland Waters
833
409
209
70
403
91
1,087
674
206
6
13
8
3
11
55
1
2
33
458
251
26
258
1.068
6
28
$25,200
89,500
66,000
10,500
89,000
493.600
7.000
1,000
186
116
79
33
131
31
193
227
14
$107,785
106,920
82,950
22,900
125.025
17.790
357.821
130,700
3,600
339
102
15
30
114
63
130
203
118
$26,393
7,835
880
1.975
6,150
5.300
12,545
10,823
6.188
668,526
1,165.076
995.600
111.800
1,299 845
2.709.670
1.238.122
3.000
$101,549
159,370
145.760
16.210
168.669
Lake Superior . ....
North Channel
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
405.413
146.875
450
Lake Ontario
Southern Inland Waters
Totals
3.982
99
2,117
$781,700
1,010
$955,491
1,114
$78,089
8.191.638
$1,144,296
APPENDIX
QUANTITIES OF
HERRING
WHITE-
FISH
TROUT
PIKE
PICKEREL
(BLUE)
PICKEREL
(DORE)
DISTRICT
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
Northern Inland Waters
2.330
1.707.976
100.372
4.477
103.441
6,444.991
760.474
1.490.357
358,617
66.139
21.791
279.285
150
1.689.353
359.397
142.420
1.479.120
117.410
7,165
737,591
129
105,145
829.622
7,662
2.640
93.736
24.944
15.823
29.647
91.116
9.287
4.151
917
6.658.766
18.632
1.656.260
97.799
Lake Huron . ,
138.189
North Channel
33.318
Georgian Bay
38.017
Lake St. Clair
64.795
Lake Erie
1.068.208
Lake Ontario ...
33.923
Southern Inland Waters
664
TOTALS .
9.124.060
4.266.089
2,688,980
1.104.376
6.682.466
3.021.173
VALUES
$1,183,053.32
$1,362,137.98
$ 832.660.52
$ 110.797.40
$ 1.316.120.66
$ 665.3.'S6.65
ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-4^
35
NO. 3
DEPARTMENT, ONTARIO
of Ontario, for the year ending December 31.st, 1945
MENT
SEINE NETS
Pound Nets
HOOP NETS
DIP AND
Roll Nets
NIGHT LINES
Freezers &
Ice Houses
Piers and
Wharves
TOTAL
No
Yds.
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
No
Value
No.
Hooks
Value
No.
Value
No.
Value
Value
j
S
36
$14,860
76
$3,100
$
4,900
$990
144
$40,120
114
$18,543
$338,540
36
15,450
2
5
75
56.446
60
29,280
464.805
89
64,600
3.630
1.220
52
30,600
17
6.635
397,645
36
12.600
2
5
22
7,700
15
5,350
77,240
4
600
625
61
55.450
45
915
14,412
3,160
63
25,675
56
35,015
509.684
16
3.700
2,520
1.34
21,400
4.200
338
16
7.600
11
2,140
57,088
37
10.000
8,014
677
377.170
25
3,265
2,2.50
119
124
305,300
95
60,675
2,023,822
9
890
990
759
25,315
9
1,177
2,418
190
38
8,870
38
9.140
341,080
44
3,900
5.625
305
11.120
20
126
1.425
115
16
1.570
29,794
110 19.090
17,774
1068
561,530
1210
43.715
29
1.303
.33,239
6,142
550
483.880
406
165.778
4,239,698
NO. 4
FISH TAKEN
■
STURGEON
EELS
PERCH
TUL-
IBEE
CATFISH
CARP
MIXED
COARSE
CAVAIRE
TOTAL
VALUE
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
lbs.
106,268
1,000
4.172
6.436
720
1,808
10,726
8,106
320
43,635
2.864
10,008
621
238.591
12.268
3,333
32.481
1.206.478
188,171
3.13?
239.603
57.259
291,766
7,208
103.901
44,760
8,652
68
5.608
61.824
71,639
229,087
136,918
46
20,115
2,867
38,080
89,839
139,430
178,747
168,944
615,975
101,965
78.560
244.581
188.652
246.087
1.729.524
321,819
285.192
2 081
243
75
184
367
36
5,039,544
3,812,064
1,070,900
433,990
1,524.489
602,991
18,949,577
2.338.186
606.002
$897,931.48
635,638.55
229,911.02
54,507.16
388,817.94
61,793.07
3,698.891.32
385.428.87
70,765.84
139,224
46.719
1.695.084
699.637
567,546
638,068
3.812,355
2.966
34.277.743
97.900.00
3,724.72
321,571.70
119,955.24
97,859.16
48.388.39
.326,966.1 li 7,183.60
6.483,675.25
36 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 41 (1948)
APPENDIX NO. 5
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE YIELD OF THE FISHERIES OF ONTARIO
1944 1945 Increase Decrease
Kind Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds
Herring 3,045,883
Whitefish 4,204,163
Trout 2,950,430
Pike 1,073,388
Pickerel (Blue) 9,413,269
Pickerel (Dore) 2,899,446
Sturgeon 161,117
Eels 41,795
Perch - 1,942,208
Tullibee 598,594
Catfish „ 506,777
Carp ., 674,008
Mixed and Coarse 3,527,821
Caviare 1 ,660
9,124,060
6,078,177
4,265,089
60,926
2,588,980
361,450
1,104,376
30,988
6,582,466
2,830,803
3,021,173
121,727
139,224
21,893
46,719
4,924
1,695,084
247,124
699,637
101,043
557,546
50,769
638,068
35,940
3,812,355
284,534
2,966
1,306
Totals 31,040,559 34,277,743 6,734,394 3,497,210
Net Increase 3,237,184
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